If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. — Raymond Mortimer Copy Share Image
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them. — Carl Zuckmayer Copy Share Image
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Being the bigger person in a situation requires humility and restraint, therefore it should go without saying that you are going to… — Aimee Vernon Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose… — Michelle Singletary 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
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good… — Chester A. Arthur 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
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image