Tact Quotes

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

— Francis Bacon

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

— Samuel Butler

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

— Samuel Butler

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

— Dane Cook

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

— Fanny Fern

Talent without tact is only half talent.

— Horace Greeley

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

— Anonymous

Tact is good taste in action.

— Diane de Poitiers

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

— Lois Greiman

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

— Hugh Allen

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

— Anonymous

Some people are just like some schools during summer, they have, NO CLASS.

— Anonymous

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

— William Gilmore Simms

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the…

— Anonymous

Just because something is true doesn't mean you have to say it.

— Katherine Triandafilou

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

— Edgar Guest

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an…

— Maria Montessori

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will…

— Dr. Seuss

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

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

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

— Jeanne Phillips

“Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any…

— Shannon L. Alder

It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to…

— Anonymous

It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in…

— Margot Kidder

“Tact is the ability to formulate your thoughts, carefully choose your words and effectively communicate them without offending anyone. This is the…

— Uzoma Nnadi

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So…

— Dr. Seuss

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,…

— Virginia Satir

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If…

— Hans Eysenck

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

In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such…

— Charles R. Swindoll

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

— Jack McDevitt

I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual…

— Harold Bloom

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

— Charlotte Bronte

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

— Henry Van Dyke

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

— Anonymous

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

— Isaac Newton

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

— Socrates