Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Some people are just like some schools during summer, they have, NO CLASS. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. — Puzant Kevork Thomajan Copy Share Image
The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact. — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
“In negotiations, everyone goes home with a slice of tactful compromise but nobody gets to binge on the whole cake and leave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image