Quotes About Tact

I found myself wishing that Jeeves wasn't always so dashed tactful. I mean, it's all very well to remove yourself like an eel sliding into mud when the employer has a visitor, but there are moments — and it looked to me as if this was going to be one of them — when the truer tact is to stick round and stand ready to lend a hand in the free-for-all.

Mac had many admirable qualities, but not tact. He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant.

The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient: 'He who treads softly goes far.

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

Principle 1 Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

Quien pisa con suavidad va lejos".

He who treads softly goes far.

If you are going to prove anything, don't let anybody know it. Do it so subtly, so adroitly, that no one will feel that you are doing it. This was expressed succinctly by Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Sé diplomático —le dijo el rey—, te ayudará a obtener tus deseos.

En otras palabras: no hay que discutir con el cliente o con el cónyuge o con el adversario. No le diga que se equivoca, no lo haga enojar; utilice un poco de tacto, de diplomacia.

PRINCIPLE 2 Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

He never raised his voice, even in the midst of volatile situations.

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

And 2,200 years before Christ was born, King Akhtoi of Egypt gave his son some shrewd advice—advice that is sorely needed today. "Be diplomatic," counseled the King. "It will help you gain your point.

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

you soften the approach and avoid raising his defenses immediately.

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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