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 Copy Share Image
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. — Raymond Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I shifted in my chair as Dad waited for a response. He seemed determined, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact. — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image