“Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring. [points to self]” — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
People who can hold their tongues, rarely have any troubles holding their friends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the… — William James 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
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 Copy Share Image
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
If you dont find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it… — T H White Copy Share Image
A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
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