Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon. — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A wise man will never tell his wife to keep quiet. He will tell her she looks beautiful with her mouth closed. — Anonymous 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
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
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 Copy Share Image
I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In negotiations, everyone goes home with a slice of tactful compromise but nobody gets to binge on the whole cake and leave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education… The three R's,… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
