Quotes About Tactful

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

I think Maurice is whatever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be it. He's an operator, that's for sure.

I glared at the man. You know, Dr. Russell, most doctors would have found a more tactful way to break the news. I'm sorry, Mr. Perry, Dr. Russell said. I don't want to seem unconcerned. But it's really not a problem. Even on Earth, testicular cancer is easily treatable, particularly in the early stages, which is the case here. At the very worst, you'd lose the testicle, but that's not a significant setback. Unless you happen to own the testicle, I growled.

Diplomacy does not mean to become soft, but to be more cunning like a fox than the normal citizen. Killing two birds with one word.

Deferential, but not obsequious. Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.