Seth Meyers Quotes

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

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.

I don't see myself as offending people.

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

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.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

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

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

I don't want to offend people.

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Remember to be sensitive to the feelings of people around you.

Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

We don't like offending anyone.

I'm always thinking about how what I'm doing is affecting the people around me. As a New Yorker, you have to be that way.

I do not want to insult anyone with my act and am very careful about it.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.

I don't aim to offend.

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.