Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

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

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

if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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.

We don't like offending anyone.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

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

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

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

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.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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.

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

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.

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

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.