Tact Quotes · Page 3

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

— J. G. Holland

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

— Socrates

Tact: getting your point across without stabbing someone with it.

— Anonymous

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

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Tact is for people who aren't smart or witty enough to be sarcastic.

— Anonymous

Looking back on it at least my pride is in tact 'cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied…

— Anonymous

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Eddie Cantor

“A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: "I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want…

— Matt Chandler

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong…

— Benjamin Franklin

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies…

— William Gilmore Simms

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering…

— Sara Sheridan

“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog’s owner. But no man—spend he ever so much coin and…

— Albert Payson Terhune

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the…

— Harold Nicolson

... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education… The three R's,…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing…

— Dean Spade

“Talent is something, but tact is everything. Talent is serious, sober, grave and respectable; tact is all that, and more too. It…

— W.P. Scargill

The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in…

— J. Oswald Sanders

I actually love...Well I love both of them [Paris Hilton or Britney Spears] but I really love Paris Hilton. I interviewed her…

— Alexa Chung

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

— Arthur Lynch

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

— Bill Jay

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

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Theodor Adorno

A wise man will never tell his wife to keep quiet. He will tell her she looks beautiful with her mouth closed.

— Anonymous

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Marvin J. Ashton

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

— Perry Brass

Tact: the ability to tell a man he's open-minded when he has a hole in his head.

— F G Kernan

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

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Joseph Cook

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

— Anonymous

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

— Oliver Herford