Eartha Kitt Quotes

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

I think a sense of humor is the most important thing anyone can have.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

I think it's important to be subtle, sweet, and powerful.

What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.