Quotes About Tact

Never, if you can help it, be the bringer of ill news

she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings—which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.

Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.

spoke through her teeth, another skill

I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up.

I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.

I feel that anything I say, or do, in this moment, will upset you." It was the most diplomatic way I'd ever been told that I was a pain in the ass. I fought the urge to scream at him.

As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

We know that, when teaching students, only the utmost care and patience will ever work: we must never raise our voices, we have to use extraordinary tact, we must leave plenty of time for every lesson to sink in, and we need to ensure at least ten compliments for every one delicately inserted negative remark. Above all, we must remain calm.

There is a lack of tact in people who their conversation look not to please others, but to elucidate, egotistically, points that they are interested in.' Conversation requires an abdication of oneself in the name of pleasing companions: 'When we speak, it is no longer we who speak...we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people, and not of a self that differs from them.

We have something to hide. We have secrets, worries, thoughts, hopes, desires, passions which no one else gets to know. We are sensitive when people get near those domains with their questions. And now, against all rules of tact the Bible speaks of the truth that in the end we will appear before Christ with everything we are and were…. And we all know that we could justify ourselves before any human court, but not before this one. Lord, who can justify themselves

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Among Berthier's many qualities was a diplomatic nature so finely attuned that he somehow managed to persuade his wife, the Duchess Maria of Bavaria, to share a chateau with his mistress Madame Visconti (and vice versa).

The monthly nurse, a delightful young woman called Nurse Chiffinch, was seated starchily in a deck chair, crocheting a mauve bed jacket. Such was her tact that she always sat far enough from her employers to make conversation difficult, though near enough to make it impossible for them to talk privately.

If a person seems inflexible, yield, then slip in sideways and get what you want.

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton.

I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.