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Quotes About Tactless

I do not know which is the more nefarious: to ignore social distress, as do the majority of those who have been favoured by fortune and those who have risen in the social scale through their own routine labour, or the equally supercilious and often tactless but always genteel condescension displayed by people who make a fad of being charitable and who plume themselves on 'sympathising with the people.
~ Adolf Hitler
Sadie, you're the most tactless girl I ever had the bad luck to meet.' But I am enthusiastic. I get carried away. I don't stop to think. I'm just the same with my work. I don't consider my own feelings; I don't consider other people's feelings. I just wade right in and ask for what I want, and I mostly get it.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Arthur Dent, you are not merely a cruel and heartless man, you are also staggeringly tactless.
~ Douglas Adams
She wasn't sure if they meant to be hurtful or if they were just profoundly tactless.
~ Julian Fellowes
Old Time is never discreet or tactful.
~ Rex Stout
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
~ Bette Davis
No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?
~ E.M. Forster
Yeah, I'm insensitive. So is life. DEAL with it.
~ Neal Boortz
Well, I'm the king of Foot in Mouth.
~ Elizabeth Bear
really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactless, and I don't mean to, to be honest, I don't mean to do that.
~ David Davis
I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
~ Emma Donoghue
Twigbranch purred softly, feeling comforted. It was hard not to love Finleap. He was clumsy and tactless at times, but his heart was always in the right place.
~ Erin Hunter
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life.
~ Bette Davis
Mrs. Woodfield chuckled. "You can't seem to keep your foot out of your mouth, Winston. I do hope your shoe leather is tasty.
~ Judith McCoy Miller
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
~ Bette Davis
This whole speech, extremely silly, tactless and probably politically dangerous, made Pavel Iosifovich shake with rage, but, strange as it might seem, it could be seen from the eyes of the crowd of customers that had gathered that it had aroused sympathy in very many people!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
It amazed him that people could be so tactless. Being a disfigured felon carried weight in certain social circles, though apparently not on South Beach.
~ Carl Hiaasen
you got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.
~ Toni Morrison
I have never been a very tactful person. I have never been discreet either. I am a voyeur and a gossip. I am also very opinionated. These are good qualities to have if your aim is to be a writer who is read. You could add to that the extremely useful habit of keeping a diary. I
~ Khushwant Singh
Did I offend you?" Lannister said. "Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.
~ George R.R. Martin
People who are in the right often don't know how to behave. They lose their tempers and swear. They act tactlessly and intolerantly. Usually they get blamed for every that goes wrong at home or work. While those who are in the wrong, those who hurt others, always know how to behave. They act calmly, logically and tactfully-and appear to be in the right.
~ Vasily Grossman
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
~ John Arlott
Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.
~ Theophrastus