Ability Quote by Harry S. Truman

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

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Carl Zuckmayer

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

— Lois Greiman

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

— Henry Van Dyke

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

— Raymond Mortimer

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 and that's…

— Debra Winger

I have the necessary lack of tact.

— Ted Koppel

I don't know if going tit for tat is necessary. Sometimes it only elevates something that other people wouldn't even see.

— Jasmine Crockett

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

— Anonymous

Tat tat tatted up!

— Me

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

— Puzant Kevork Thomajan