Tact Quotes · Page 5

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

— Anonymous

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

— David Sedaris

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering…

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Andrew Jackson

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness…

— Nancy Milford

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of…

— Charles Simmons

There are times to be quiet, to speak your mind, to leave, to stay, but whatever you do, do it for the…

— Anonymous

“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

A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his…

— Nuno Oliveira

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

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

— Frank Medlicott

In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary…

— Louis IX of France

I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership… I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

“I found myself wishing that Jeeves wasn't always so dashed tactful. I mean, it's all very well to remove yourself like an…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them…

— John Kessel

For some people GTH isn't enough, I say they worth more then they've got

— Azer

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

— Agatha Christie

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

— Leo Buscaglia

“Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring. [points to self]”

— Bill Lawrence

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

— Henry Van Dyke

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

— Samuel Butler

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

— Eddie Cantor

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

— Julian Burnside

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

— Raymond Mortimer

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

— Anonymous

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

— Chelsea Handler

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

— Jean Cocteau

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

— Carl Zuckmayer

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

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

If you dont find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that…

— Anonymous

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

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands…

— Benjamin Disraeli