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