Tact Quotes · Page 4

Tact, the art of telling someone to go to hell in such a way that they enjoy the trip

— Anonymous

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

— Ambrose Bierce

For some people GTH isn't enough, I say they worth more then they've got

— Azer

“Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them…

— John Kessel

The art of diplomacy starts with the heart of diplomacy which is to find a peaceable solution.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if…

— Oscar Wilde

To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction…

— Andrew Jackson

“Briggs: This is how you walk on eggshells? Riley: Well, you know. Eggshells. If they're on the ground, they're probably already broken…

— Geonn Cannon

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

— David Sedaris

“tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a “feel” for the proper words or…

— J Oswald Sanders

The less you respond to rude, argumentative people the more peaceful your life will become. A little thought, and a little consideration…

— Anil Sinha

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good…

— Chester A. Arthur

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do…

— Frank Medlicott

In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary…

— Louis IX of France

Your words can hurt someone more than you intended too and therefore it is important that you take a moment to think…

— Anonymous

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really…

— Remi Aubuchon

I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership… I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

“I found myself wishing that Jeeves wasn't always so dashed tactful. I mean, it's all very well to remove yourself like an…

— P. G. Wodehouse

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

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

— Agatha Christie

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

— Isaac Goldberg

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

People who can hold their tongues, rarely have any troubles holding their friends.

— Anonymous

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

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Henry Van Dyke

“Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring. [points to self]”

— Bill Lawrence

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

— Eddie Cantor

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ” Howard W. Newton”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

— Samuel Butler

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

— Anonymous

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

— Chelsea Handler

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

— Orlando Aloysius Battista