Quotes About Tact

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

Never hint that there is something wrong with their country.

Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.

I figured he was adhering to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't make fun of the person paying the mortgage.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.

The Sanders Institute will not be taking any potshots at people.

I do not want to insult anyone with my act and am very careful about it.

Never insult anyone by accident.

I don't like to insult people and I encourage them.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

If you can´t say something nice, don´t say nothing at all. (Thumper from the Disney movie Bambi)

Tact is the ability to say something in a way that makes the other person feel less threatened or defensive and more open to you and your ideas.

We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. "Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth." Or, "I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth."

First," he said dispassionately, "hold your tongue. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him. Smile a lot. Make him feel big. Tell him how wonderful he is, and wait on him.

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

En el mundo hay gente educada y gente con tacto. Ambas son buenas cualidades, pero en la mayoría de los cados el tacto supera a la educación

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

I don't want to be that guy that's either arrogant or rubs people the wrong way.

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

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.