Tact Quotes · Page 4

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

— Samuel Butler

Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.

— Delmore Schwartz

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

— Wilson Mizner

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

— Jean Cocteau

Bigger isn't always better, but you wont know unless you try.

— Jordan D Ulmer

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

— Carl Zuckmayer

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

— Anonymous

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

— Chelsea Handler

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will…

— Dr. Seuss

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

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an…

— Maria Montessori

From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an…

— Rupert Giles

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

Being the bigger person in a situation requires humility and restraint, therefore it should go without saying that you are going to…

— Aimee Vernon

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the…

— Napoleon Hill

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

Your words can hurt someone more than you intended too and therefore it is important that you take a moment to think…

— Anonymous

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

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

— Raymond Mortimer

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

— Julian Burnside

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

— Agatha Christie

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

— Isaac Goldberg

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

— Henry Van Dyke

“Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring. [points to self]”

— Bill Lawrence

People who can hold their tongues, rarely have any troubles holding their friends.

— Anonymous

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

— Leo Buscaglia

“Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.”

— L.M. Montgomery

For some people GTH isn't enough, I say they worth more then they've got

— Azer

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them…

— John Kessel

The art of diplomacy starts with the heart of diplomacy which is to find a peaceable solution.

— Jordan Blake Michiels