Acting Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“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

Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

— Frank Medlicott

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

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

Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There are people who take exceeding pleasure in their own irritable touchiness, especially when it reaches the final limit (which always happens very quickly);…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection…

— Bernhard Schlink

I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It…

— Lauren Conrad

“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught to be…

— Nicholas Wade

“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient…

— Kamand Kojouri

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small…

— Michel de Montaigne

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give…

— Angela Carter