Quotes About Tact

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

Discretion is the better part of valor

he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years.

Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

Tact is just lying for adults.

And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

You don't want to be an iron fist all the time; at least I don't. I like to pick my spots and have a reason for everything that I do.

Just as I don't like it when other coaches question my squads and my line-ups, I won't talk about others.

You don't have to use aggression to squash somebody. You have to use your brain.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I don't think you negotiate with people by going around telling them that they're like Nazi guards or it's all about prosecco.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

I'm not some ditzy moron who has no idea how to deal with a diplomat as if they're some exotic animal.

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

Discretion's the better part of valor

the city," he said diplomatically.