Tact Quotes

115 quotes by 97 authors

I have the necessary lack of tact. — Ted Koppel
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of… — William Gilmore Simms
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. — Raymond Mortimer
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they… — Frank Medlicott
Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in. — Marvin J. Ashton
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! — Henry Adams
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as… — Meryl Streep
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have… — Maria Montessori
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. — Oliver Herford
To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence… — Piero Ferrucci
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes. — Joseph Cook
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs.… — Edmund Gosse
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Without tact you can learn nothing. — Benjamin Disraeli
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact. — Edgar Guest
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready… — Marcus Aurelius
Difficulties melt away under tact. — Benjamin Disraeli
Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful. — Earl Tupper

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