Sonam Kapoor Quotes

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

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

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

I tell it like it is, but I don't voice my opinion unless it's asked for.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

I have to chose my words carefully.

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.

The definition of committing a gaff in Washington is telling the truth when most people think that you should not have.

All truths are not to be told.

… in politics, just as anywhere else in life, it is impossible and it would not be sensible always to say everything bluntly. Yet that does not mean one has to lie. What is needed here are tact, instinct and good taste.

Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.

I am very moohphat and can never be diplomatic or politically correct.

I know the pros and cons of being absolutely blunt.

I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

I learned that you have to be careful about how you say things but not what you say.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.