35 Social skills Quotes

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk? Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person. Edward Smith: [laughs] Thank you, Andy.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Because of their age-long training in human relations- for that is what feminine intuition really is- women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.

When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

11) There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.

Good-breeding, or true politeness, is the art of showing men by external signs the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by good company. It must be acquired by practice and not by books.

Never engross the whole conversation to yourself. Say as little of yourself and friends as possible.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.

Unforced, as conversation passed, he had the talent of saluting felicitously every theme, of listening like a judge-supreme while serious topics were disputing, or, with an epigram-surprise, of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.

That was the way communication was among women, most of the time; few women realized it, but they all depended on it. 'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

I told her to sit down and shut her mouth. Phil, she's my best friend and I feel I can be direct with her.

Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.

Lerne den Ton der Gesellschaft anzunehmen, in der du dich befindest.

Talk to a man about himself, and he is generally captivated.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

Ce qui fait que si peu de personnes sont agreables dans la conversation, c'est que chacun songe plus a ce qu'il veut dire qu'a ce que les autres disent.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.