Tact Quotes · Page 2

I have the necessary lack of tact.

— Ted Koppel

Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

— Earl Tupper

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

— Gretchen Rubin

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

— Samuel Butler

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

— Mason Cooley

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

— Francis Bacon

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

— Samuel Butler

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

— Charlotte Bronte

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

— Joseph Cook

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

— Perry Brass

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

— Harry S. Truman

Tact: the ability to tell a man he's open-minded when he has a hole in his head.

— F G Kernan

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

— Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Tact: getting your point across without stabbing someone with it.

— Anonymous

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies…

— William Gilmore Simms

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong…

— Benjamin Franklin

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

— Stephen Sondheim

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world…

— Robert E. Lee

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance…

— Debra Winger

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the…

— Edmund Gosse

“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words…

— Socrates

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for…

— Ellen G. White

“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people.…

— Shannon L. Alder

I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense,…

— Virginia Satir

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If…

— Hans Eysenck

Tact is good taste in action.

— Diane de Poitiers

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

— Anonymous

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

— Henry Van Dyke

Tact is just lying for adults.

— Cassandra Clare

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

— Craig Ferguson

Without tact you can learn nothing.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

— Anonymous

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

— Edgar Guest