Quotes About Tact

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . .

A wise man is one who doesn't stir up volcanoes, revolutions, or pregnant females.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

Don't mess with Sergio Marchionne.

Was that job offer you worked into the blessing? I never saw such tact.

Take things always by their smooth handle.

It's hard to put a foot in a shut mouth.

1. Never tell everything at once.

Be careful. Be diplomatic. Try not to blow anything up.

They take it wisly, faire, and softe.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

I could have said some things about Hillary Clinton that would have been unfortunate for her, too. But I don't want to interfere.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.