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I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed to keep us both in tact? — Kevin Powers

Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly. — Debasish Mridha

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. — Harry Truman

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. — Robertson Davies

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.
[The human element] — W. Somerset Maugham

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! — Henry Adams

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead. — Benjamin Disraeli

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings — David Sedaris

With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible. — Eddie Cantor

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them. — Carl Zuckmayer

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny. — Dane Cook

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. — Benjamin Disraeli

A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities. — Nuno Oliveira

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. — Puzant Kevork Thomajan

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. — Gregory Peck

Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education. — John Fowles

Tact is just lying for adults. — Cassandra Clare

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck — Guy Gavriel Kay

Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact. — Santosh Kalwar

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

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. — Ambrose Bierce

Without tact you can learn nothing. — Benjamin Disraeli

Tact is good taste in action. — Diane De Poitiers

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. — Jean Cocteau

The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result. — Orrin Woodward

Tact is the ability to say something in a way that makes the other person feel less threatened or defensive and more open to you and your ideas. — Bob Burg

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

Valerie Feigen watched in near bewilderment as her husband acquired, haltingly, in fits and starts, a trait resembling tact. — Michael Lewis

Love is the tact of every good,
The only warmth, the only peace. — Delmore Schwartz

Was that job offer you worked into the blessing? I never saw such tact. — Thomas Harris

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact. — Stephen Sondheim

I have the necessary lack of tact. — Ted Koppel

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally... — Socrates

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands. — Lois Greiman

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful. — Earl Tupper

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. — Donald E. Williams Jr.

Conquer, but never triumph. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time. — Harold Holzer

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. — Joseph Cook

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world. — Edna Ferber

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated
it is an art. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Each moment is precious to act, react and keep in tact, all those lives close to our own. — Santosh Kalwar

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining — Julian Burnside

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact. — Jeanne Phillips

Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.

[points to self] — Bill Lawrence

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds. — Darynda Jones

Galen, who forgot this little thing called "tact" when he accused my mom of being a runaway fish-princess. — Anna Banks

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in. — Marvin J. Ashton

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far. — Jean Cocteau

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness. — James Hudson Taylor

He was under the mistaken impression that I didn't have enough tact.
The truth was, I had no tact. — Caroline Hanson

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon. — Arthur Lynch

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact. — James Goldman

Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere. — Tim Tharp

War is like government, a matter of tact. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. — Benjamin Franklin

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. — J.G. Holland

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. — Oliver Herford

Talent without tact is only half talent. — Horace Greeley

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. — Gretchen Rubin

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. — P.G. Wodehouse

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say. — Craig Ferguson

Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose your job or income. — Michelle Singletary

Tact,' Lymond said, 'is the name you should have upon your tombstone. — Dorothy Dunnett

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps. — Charlotte Bronte

Ugliness without tact is horrible. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. — Hugh Allen

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it. — Maria Montessori

Cody?" I said. "Why are you dead?" Tact. I got it. — Devon Monk

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact. — Bertrand Russell

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact. — David Foenkinos

According to her, I didn't have an ounce of tact. That simply wasn't true. It wasn't my fault that they were all incompetent asshats. "Are — Adele Abbott

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

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom. — Bill Jay

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that? — Matt Chandler

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. — Wilson Mizner

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

Difficulties melt away under tact. — Benjamin Disraeli

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in. — John Kessel

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact. — Perry Brass

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. — Isaac Newton

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. — Samuel Butler

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. — B.H. Liddell Hart

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

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

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think. — Henry Van Dyke

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down. — Mary Renault

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not. — Socrates

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. — Raymond Mortimer

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want. — Mason Cooley

I write in every genre under the sun! Like, seriously. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Publishing, however, takes a bit more tact. — Darynda Jones