Amy Heckerling Quotes

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

If you're not sure of what to say, don't say anything.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

There is no diplomacy like silence.