Tact Quotes · Page 4

Crying is never an effective means of negotiation.

— Cailleach Bheur

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

— Gretchen Rubin

Difficulties melt away under tact.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

— Robertson Davies

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.

— Darynda Jones

“The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.”

— Orrin Woodward

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

— Gregory Peck

“Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.”

— Angelica Hopes

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

— Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.

— Eddie Cantor

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Frank Medlicott

From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an…

— Rupert Giles

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette;…

— Henry James

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think…

— John C. Reilly

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a…

— Edna Ferber

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong…

— Benjamin Franklin

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I shifted in my chair as Dad waited for a response. He seemed determined, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence.…

— Darynda Jones

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

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent…

— Arthur Helps

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for…

— Ellen G. White

“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people.…

— Shannon L. Alder

Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing…

— Dean Spade

I actually love...Well I love both of them [Paris Hilton or Britney Spears] but I really love Paris Hilton. I interviewed her…

— Alexa Chung

Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,…

— Marvin L. Cohen

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

— Dr. Seuss

War is like government, a matter of tact.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

— Craig Ferguson

Without tact you can learn nothing.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Tact is just lying for adults.

— Cassandra Clare

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

— Bill Jay

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

— Perry Brass

Tact: the ability to tell a man he's open-minded when he has a hole in his head.

— F G Kernan

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

— Harry S. Truman