David Sedaris Quote

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.