Quotes About Tact

Kindness is always fashionable.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

But Julia hasn't a bit of tact; and men, I find, require a great deal. They purr if you rub them the right way and spit if you don't. (That isn't a very elegant metaphor. I mean it figuratively.)

He doesn't like making others uncomfortable." -Helen to Sophia about Alistair

There are occasions upon which a candid expression of opinion may be not only rude, but counterproductive. L

One way to be sure of saying nothing that can be taken amiss is to say nothing at all.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

Sometimes as a player you do not want to get into a controversy.

I wouldn't criticise Carlo Ancelotti.

Personally, I would never criticise a player in public.

I never do anything just to be crude or in your face.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

I have the necessary lack of tact.