Ability Quote by Hugh Allen

“tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a “feel” for the proper words or responses to…

— J Oswald Sanders

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception…

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Henry Van Dyke

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel,…

— Frank Medlicott

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

— Leo Buscaglia

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Clever politeness can throw people off. Be tactful.”

— Saad Ireland

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

— William Hazlitt

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep…

— Jermain Defoe