Quotes About Tact

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

but Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with Hiccup copped it. SORRY, and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.

Buddha said: 'Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,' and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.

Always avoid the acute angle.

Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Remember what Lincoln said: 'A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

Buda dijo: El odio nunca es vencido por el odio sino por el amor, y un malentendido no termina nunca gracias una discusión sino gracias al tacto, la diplomacia, la conciliación, y un sincero deseo de apreciar el punto de vista de los demás.

Nothing good can be accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and make yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion.

In other words, don't argue with your customer or your spouse or your adversary. Don't tell them they are wrong, don't get them stirred up. Use a little diplomacy.

He knew how to be impolite without being rude.

When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him." Instead, he would agree in parts and suggest his differences only indirectly.

But Nimitz was very careful not to criticize Halsey in any way or to allow even a hint of controversy to enter the official records.

G. K. Chesterton described as "a taboo of tact or convention, whereby we are free to say that a man does this or that because of his nationality, or his profession, or his place of residence, or his hobby, but not because of his creed about the very cosmos in which he lives.

You had to speak softly and carry a big stick.

it's better for people to shut up rather than say something nasty.

A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the clich

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy.

This needed to be handled with finesse, but you have all the finesse of the Hulk on meth.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

At times, you have to maybe speak out of turn or say a little bit too much which upsets a few people.