Nancy Wilson Quotes

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

Always be kind, but kindness doesn't mean that you have to not say what you think.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

Australian women tend to tell it like it is - even if it's the brutal, honest truth. I think American women usually break it to you a little easier. There's a softer side to them.

I have realised that it's important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.

We don't like offending anyone.

When somebody says something stupid to me, I usually alleviate it with laughter and humour. I make light of it to educate people on why it's inappropriate.

I'm not a trash talker, that's not my thing. But if someone asks me, I'm going to say what I feel and what I think.

I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored, but I would never enjoy making someone feel uncomfortable at all.

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.