Tact Quotations

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

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

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

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

We set the bar for other clubs. I don't know how all of this happened. The heart and soul of this team has stayed in tact for 25 years - I'm proud of you.

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

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-- truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better then policy or tact or expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

You need more tact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far

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

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

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

Talent without tact is only half talent.

I don't think that tact would take. I think that does stir up the school board crowd and local government types?.I don't think they drive the primary.

Tact is just lying for adults.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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

Difficulties melt away under tact.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

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

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

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

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