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Updated: May 4, 2025
They never seem to understand the first principle of diplomacy—namely, that no treaty can be of any permanent value which is only advantageous to one side. And then there is the utter tactlessness of the Germans. It is partly explainable by their belief in force. When you believe in force you do not trouble to persuade or conciliate.
"I wonder how much they would care for her if she hadn't been born into one of the sacred old families, and hadn't money to boot!" cried Mrs. Stone, exasperated beyond endurance by this triumph of marital tactlessness. "I'd like to know what chance a poor girl has to turn people's heads " "Tut! tut! Brownie, you're jealous. You know there never was a town where people cared less about money "
Before attempting to analyze them, however, it may not be amiss to remark that during the French press campaign conducted in the years 1915-16, with the object of determining the Tokio Cabinet to take part in the military operations in Europe, the question of motive was discussed with a degree of tactlessness which it is difficult to account for.
She sat between him and her daughter and ruled the conversation. It was little better than taking her alone, so he abandoned also these enterprises. In the talk at table the family, with Teuton tactlessness, now and then cried out the surpassing merits of the German young man. Unquestionably he led all others.
It has always seemed to me that music and pictures and books were for people who had been caught in an eddy and couldn't go on with the stream." She realized the tactlessness of this immediately, and added: "That's just a silly fancy. What I should have said, of course, is that I haven't the talent." "Don't spoil it," remonstrated the other woman thoughtfully.
And then it may have been embarrassment that led me to such tactlessness, but as I glanced at him and the glass of milk he was holding, I could not help reminding him of the first words I had ever heard him utter. He tossed off the glass, colored slightly, as I thought, and said with a light laugh: "I suppose I have changed a good deal since then, sir."
"It was unwise," Greythorpe agreed. "Our friend is by no means amenable to treatment of the kind." "Still you would not let a good officer suffer because of my tactlessness?" "Certainly not; the only thing that could count against any of the men we are considering is some shortcoming of their own."
"Do you mean that I love you as I might a sister?" asked Gilbert, with the grave tactlessness of a thoroughly honest man. The blush deepened in her cheek, and she nodded slowly, still looking away. "Beatrix!" "Well?" She would not turn to him. "What have I done that you should say such a thing?" "That is it!" she answered regretfully. "You have done great things, but they were not for me."
He will talk you so blind that at last you are unable to see any viewpoint clearly. A recognized type is the tactless talker. He says the wrong thing in the right way, and the right thing in the wrong way. He is impulsive and unguarded. He reaches hasty conclusions. He confuses his tactlessness with cleverness. He is awkward and blundering.
His intellect also told him that, for the past three weeks, Carew's kindness had been unremitting; that his care had served as a buffer between himself and the clumsy tactlessness of their mates; that his sympathy now was leading him to try to storm the barrier of his own reserve; but he met Carew's advances with an icy front which could be thawed neither from outside nor from within.
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