Tact Quotes · Page 2

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

— Socrates

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 discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Arthur Lynch

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Jeanne Phillips

What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't…

— Tilda Swinton

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 negotiations, everyone goes home with a slice of tactful compromise but nobody gets to binge on the whole cake and leave…

— Stewart Stafford

“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

“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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance…

— Debra Winger

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

— Edmund Gosse

“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words…

— Socrates

“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

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives…

— Grenville Kleiser

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

“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

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, 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

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

— Oliver Herford

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

— Jordan Blake Michiels

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Isaac Goldberg

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Delmore Schwartz