Ability Quote by Orlando Aloysius Battista

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

— Carl Zuckmayer

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

“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

The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with…

— J. Oswald Sanders

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

— Theodor Adorno

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

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

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

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

— Agatha Christie