Top 54 No Tact Quotes
#2. I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.
Perry Brass
#3. He was under the mistaken impression that I didn't have enough tact.
The truth was, I had no tact.
Caroline Hanson
#4. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
#5. Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
#6. Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
#7. Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.
Arthur Lynch
#8. The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
Benjamin Disraeli
#9. In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
#10. Cody?" I said. "Why are you dead?" Tact. I got it.
Devon Monk
#11. I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.
Sara Sheridan
#12. Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Winston S. Churchill
#13. It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
Joseph Cook
#14. In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
James Hudson Taylor
#15. Galen, who forgot this little thing called "tact" when he accused my mom of being a runaway fish-princess.
Anna Banks
#16. Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.
Craig Ferguson
#17. 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.
Debra Winger
#18. The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
J.G. Holland
#19. From time to time, I am asked
by people with an alarming lack of tact
why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.
Rupert Giles
#20. Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.
Jeanne Phillips
#21. Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
Earl Tupper
#23. Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that
Drake
#24. You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.
Mason Cooley
#25. I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.
James Goldman
#26. MR. ICKY: Is your mind in good shape? DIVINE: (Gloomily) Fair. After all what is brilliance? Merely the tact to sow when no one is looking and reap when every one is.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#27. God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#28. To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.
Piero Ferrucci
#29. Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
Gretchen Rubin
#30. With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#31. Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
Edgar Guest
#32. In any case, I hadn't gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.
Alexei Panshin
#33. Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably.
Charlotte Bronte
#34. You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
Henry Adams
#36. If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
Dane Cook
#37. Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
Edna Ferber
#38. Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.
Isaac Asimov
#39. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Harold Holzer
#40. No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Bertrand Russell
#41. Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
#42. The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Stephen Sondheim
#43. The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'
Marcus Aurelius
#45. [She] had the indefinable charm of someone who said little but thought much. Miss Prim had always felt that such people were at a marked advantage. They never said anything tactless, never spouted nonsense, never had cause to regret their words or justify themselves.
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#46. Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.
Debasish Mridha
#47. The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross
Jocelyn Murray
#48. I write in every genre under the sun! Like, seriously. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Publishing, however, takes a bit more tact.
Darynda Jones
#49. She was like a musician who may be an odious vulgarian in ordinary life, devoid of tact and taste; but who will hear a false note in music with diabolical accuracy of judgment.
Anonymous
#50. 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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#51. Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Dr. Seuss
#52. Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose your job or income.
Michelle Singletary
#53. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.
Edmund Gosse
