In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. — Hugh Allen Copy Share Image
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Just because something is true doesn't mean you have to say it. — Katherine Triandafilou Copy Share Image
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an… — Rupert Giles Copy Share Image
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette;… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
I shifted in my chair as Dad waited for a response. He seemed determined, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tact is the ability to formulate your thoughts, carefully choose your words and effectively communicate them without offending anyone. This is the… — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image