Quotes About Tact

I believe in choosing your words very carefully. It's funny: I'll get comments like, 'Oh I love you. You don't care; you have no filter.' On the contrary, I absolutely have a filter, because I understand decorum, and my objective is not to upset people.

Obviously you do not want to upstage. Some people work like that. But I have never been that upstaging kind. I wouldn't want to upset anyone.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

Never criticize people who are not present to defend or explain themselves. And never predict that another person will experience failure.

Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.

If I have nothing positive to say, I don't say anything.

An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.

I don't aim to offend.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

My secret to comedy is don't offend anybody. Don't offend anybody ever. That's my secret.

Humour or comedy should not offend anyone.

I don't want to offend people.

I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

We don't like offending anyone.

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

In politics, you must learn to say 'no' without offending people. That is an art that one must master: to satisfy a person even when you have to say 'no' to him.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Details are always vulgar

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.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.

No one survives being over-estimated, nor is there any surer way of destroying an author's reputation than to glorify him without judgement and to praise him without tact.