Quotes About Tact

If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn't bruise a man's pride. You'll have a better chance of success.

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

Southern Lady Code: a technique by which, if you don't have something nice to say, you say something not-so-nice in a nice way.

Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Le tact dans l'audace, c'est de savoir jusqu'où on peut aller trop loin.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

If you're in the ring with somebody that doesn't throw good punches, guess what. Don't have him throw any punches. You work to their strengths. It's really not that difficult. You don't try to get them to do things that are out of their realm or whatever. It's not hard. It's not rocket science.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

You will never hear me denigrating other countries.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

He'd been about to make a joke, but he kept it to himself.

saying nothing with the practiced ease of a politician

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.