Quotes About Tact

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

She had what we call tact, which has been defined as the art of making your company feel at home even if you wish they were.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jokes about menstrual cycles are not funny. Period.

Honey, tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.

Travers spoke out of the side of her mouth as they walked past the frozen flock of reporters to meet McGuire at the front door. "Excellent poise, Marlow. Just what we meant by handling the press tactfully." "Thank you, Travers. That's how it's done." "I was being sarcastic." "I wasn't.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

Damn it, you've got to be kind. " If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

You can tell people the truth, "...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than say something nasty. The truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

A word of advice... Don't say things recklessly, when you sit with one who's hostile.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.

Do not speak of the defects [of others]. This states that you should never speak of others' defects—neither their worldly defects, for instance by calling them "That blind person," [70] nor their spiritual defects, for instance by calling them "That morally degenerate person.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

There's no reason to be angry or impolite.