Tact Quotes

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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

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

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

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

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

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

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

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

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

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

Tact is good taste in action.

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

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

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.

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

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

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

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

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

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

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

Talent without tact is only half talent.

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

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

Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

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

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

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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

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