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

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

— Dane Cook

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

— Chester A. Arthur

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of…

— Edmund Gosse

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

— Hugh Allen

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

— Albert Payson Terhune

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, commitment, humor,…

— Virginia Satir

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

— Andrew Jackson

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

— Gregory Peck

Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.

— Delmore Schwartz

Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye…

— Jack McDevitt

A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics…

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Matt Chandler

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Anna Julia Cooper

Being the bigger person in a situation requires humility and restraint, therefore it should go without saying that you are going to 'be the…

— Aimee Vernon