Quotes About Tact

Success is always less awkward. It does not make claims upon pity or tact: congratulations are easier to give than condolences.

How are you getting along with Lavinia?" she asked, her eyes twinkling. "I'm so happy she and her mother have come to pay us a visit. I do believe she's one of the most direct people I've ever met. She says exactly what's she's thinking, but with utmost tact. I adore her.

Discretion is the best form of calculation.

Do not humiliate or ridicule a person in order to persuade him to change

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

Never attach where it is obvious

To be honest, I've never told anybody they have bad breath. When I do recognize that, I try not to breathe when they come near.

We don't dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can't win.

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

the easiest way to get along in life is to not cause too many quarrels

You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?

Remain calm, patient, and good humored.

To avoid public mention of any name unless it can be done with favorable intent and connotation; reserve all criticism for the private conference; speak only good in public.

If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.

I lost something after Hailey died. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's the device that stops ypu from telling the truth when people ask you how you're doing, that vital valve that keeps you deeper, truer emotions under lock and key. I don't know exactly when I lost it, or how to get it back, but for now when it comes to tact, civility, and discretion, I'm an accident waiting to happen, over and over again. Socially, that makes me something of a liability.

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

La liberté ne dispense pas du tact.

I tend to agree with the guy who said diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

The cat who wants his cream must know when to purr and when to show his claws.