Tact Quotes

Difficulties melt away under tact.

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

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

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

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

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

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

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

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

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

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.

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

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.

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

War is like government, a matter of tact.

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

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Tact is just lying for adults.

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

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

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

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

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

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

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

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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]

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

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.

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

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

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

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.[points to self]

The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain, ' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

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

Diplomacy the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.