Top 39 Tactless Quotes
#1. Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
Jim Butcher
#2. Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
Anais Nin
#3. Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are!
J.D. Salinger
#4. You got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.
Toni Morrison
#5. This whole speech, extremely silly, tactless and probably politically dangerous, made Pavel Iosifovich shake with rage, but, strange as it might seem, it could be seen from the eyes of the crowd of customers that had gathered that it had aroused sympathy in very many people!
Mikhail Bulgakov
#6. Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.
Henry Miller
#7. Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
John Arlott
#8. got very nasty.' 'People mean well, but they can be so tactless sometimes,' Doreen
Lesley Pearse
#9. What's being crazy like?" Wyatt blurted.
"That depends, Enslow. What's being tactless and completely inappropriate like?
S.J. Kincaid
#10. I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactless, and I don't mean to, to be honest, I don't mean to do that.
David Davis
#11. Shockingly tactless," Lady Warford said. "Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages
Loretta Chase
#12. We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths
Melody Beattie
#13. But what made me furious was that I knew for certain that I should go, that I should make a point of going; and the more tactless, the more unseemly my going would be, the more certainly I would go.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.
Fay Weldon
#15. never to ask a Lapp how many reindeer he had. Such a question, he said, would be as tactless as to ask an American how large a bank balance he carries.
Carveth Wells
#16. Really was the most tactless person upon earth, - a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. [She] had the indefinable charm of someone who said little but thought much. Miss Prim had always felt that such people were at a marked advantage. They never said anything tactless, never spouted nonsense, never had cause to regret their words or justify themselves.
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#18. I suggest he starts introducing himself as "Lessman"; he is classless, tactless, and mannerless.
Natalya Vorobyova
#19. I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
Emma Donoghue
#20. Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing ... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
Vikram Seth
#21. You know what is so appealing about you, in a twisted, messed up kind of way?"
"What's that?"
"You have no idea how tactless you are."
"Well. I have some idea," I grumble.
Lindy Zart
#22. In response to a tactless question he once said to me, 'What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn't resist.
Jacques Yonnet
#23. I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable ... I suppose I'm larger than life.
Bette Davis
#24. There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.
Kether Donohue
#25. Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky.
Charlemagne
#26. One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
Alain De Botton
#27. A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
Catherynne M Valente
#28. You can't control other people's actions, but you can control who "thinks" they have control over you.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.
Mimi Sheraton
#30. Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
Gerald Morris
#31. I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
William Shakespeare
#32. Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis
#33. You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class
Lani Diane Rich
#34. Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.
Big Sean
#35. The Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It
George Orwell
#36. His caressing palm on her butt almost had her lulled into la-la land when he murmured, "You're mom's got a nice ass. "Willow's eyes popped open. "Excuse me?" "What?" he defended. "You always like pillow talk after sex.
Linda Kage
#38. What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.
Shantideva
#39. There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.
Nicolaus Copernicus