Quotes About Tactfulness

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove.

Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls practical intelligence. To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what psychologist Robert Sternberg calls 'practical intelligence'. To Sternberg, 'practical intelligence' includes things like: knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.

The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as few opinions as possible. Many liberals suspect passionate convictions are latently authoritarian. But liberalism should surely be a passionate conviction. Liberals are not necessarily lukewarm. Only the more macho leftist suspects that they have no balls. You can be ardently neutral, and fiercely indifferent.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

thinking to be tactful and adroit, the woman stood

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.