Quotes About Tactful

I am a very sensitive person, I cannot bear to be rude to others.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.

I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.

He was so diplomatic he hardly spoke at all...

dangerously polite.

There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.

**(C)(P)- EVIL MEN GET MORE UGLY WITH AGE, WHILE WOMEN WHO ARE EVIL GET MORE TACTFUL, CUNNING, DEMURE,STUNNINGLY SOPHISTICATED, PRETTIER, AND WISE. WHO CAN DENY? JUST LOOK AROUND YOU.

Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.

It was typical of Washington's style of leadership to present a promising proposal as someone else's idea, rather than his own.

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

But she had the awful gift of omnipresence, of exercising her influence from a distance; so that while the old family friends and visitors at Longlands said, It's wonderful, now tactful Blanche is - how she keeps out of the young people's way, every member of the household, from its master to the last boots and scullion and gardener's boy, knew that Her Grace's eyes was on them all.

I am sweet and diplomatic in real life.

There, you see? I didn't curse. Don't you agree that I handled the situation demurely?

A leader is best When people barely know that he exists.

I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

Everyone used to call me 'Mr. Switzerland.' I'm not the kind of guy who smack talks anybody or whatever.

What in the world is this abomination?" Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, "Adrian, is this some kind of joke?

So we need to be subtle—congenial yet cunning, democratic yet devious.

Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

She was a woman who had clearly had practice in keeping her thoughts to herself.

Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.