Tact Quotes

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 not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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