In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them. — Carl Zuckmayer Copy Share Image
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. — Raymond Mortimer Copy Share Image
Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Tact was a quality unknown to her, discretion too, and because gossip was the breath of life to her this stranger must… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There are times to be quiet, to speak your mind, to leave, to stay, but whatever you do, do it for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and… — Marquis de Sade 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
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes… — Charles Tremper Copy Share Image
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the… — William James Copy Share Image
Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Being the bigger person in a situation requires humility and restraint, therefore it should go without saying that you are going to… — Aimee Vernon Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it… — T H White Copy Share Image
If you dont find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
