Quotes About Tact

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

I don't have any disparaging words about WWE.

You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

The use of tact is always needful but it is especially necessary when speaking a truth that may strike a sensitive nerve in another.

you can say whatever you want so long as you say it with respect.

Washington was taciturn, once advising his adopted grandson, "It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

What I fear is that he may perhaps talk too much which would be very undesirable

by saying little, he underscored his position as honest broker and permitted the antagonists to vent their anger.

What I said to you was private. We can have private reservations about a person's work, but that doesn't mean to say that we have to spell those out to him. It's called tact, Isabel!

Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan

DON'T gang up on the other person and enlist others to your side just to prove that you're right. DON'T raise your voice. DON'T respond sarcastically. DON'T take a difference of opinion personally.

The only species of animal that tries to get by in the wilderness without interspecific tact of communication is the human critter.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself in wisdom, and wear a smile.

Unless you were dealing with the immensely stupid, which I wasn't, it was best to muss things up, to crease things, to leave tea stains, to place a small but partial muddy footprint, not exactly in the middle of the issue, but slightly to the side of, and hopefully suggestive of and incidental to the issue.

She had a capacity for tact, but she was also extremely honest, and if tact and honesty conflicted on any important matter, the honesty won.

After all what is brilliance? Merely the tact to sow when no one is looking and reap when every one is.

MR. ICKY: Is your mind in good shape? DIVINE: (Gloomily) Fair. After all what is brilliance? Merely the tact to sow when no one is looking and reap when every one is.

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.