Top 100 Quotes About Tact
#1. With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#2. Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
Edgar Guest
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
Dane Cook
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Harold Holzer
#11. No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Bertrand Russell
#12. 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
#13. He was under the mistaken impression that I didn't have enough tact.
The truth was, I had no tact.
Caroline Hanson
#14. Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
Gretchen Rubin
#15. 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
#17. [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
#18. Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.
Debasish Mridha
#19. 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
#20. I write in every genre under the sun! Like, seriously. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Publishing, however, takes a bit more tact.
Darynda Jones
#21. 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
#22. 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.
#23. Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Dr. Seuss
#24. ...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.
Socrates
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Stephen Sondheim
#29. 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
#30. Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
#31. Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.
Arthur Lynch
#32. 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
#33. In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
#34. Cody?" I said. "Why are you dead?" Tact. I got it.
Devon Monk
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
Joseph Cook
#38. In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
James Hudson Taylor
#39. Galen, who forgot this little thing called "tact" when he accused my mom of being a runaway fish-princess.
Anna Banks
#40. Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.
Craig Ferguson
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.
Jeanne Phillips
#45. Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
Earl Tupper
#47. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
Agatha Christie
#50. Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
Maria Montessori
#51. One of the things you learn about being married is that being with someone day in and day out can make you so comfortable that you risk losing your tact.
Apol Lejano-Massebieau
#52. I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel
#53. Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understands, and with the utmost tact despises the person one is subjugating.
Sandor Marai
#54. Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.
Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.
Angelica Hopes
#55. It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one ... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top.
Agatha Christie
#56. It is important to understand the purpose of criticism. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal of criticism or discipline is improvement. You must keep that in mind and try to the best of your ability to use tact.
John Wooden
#57. Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
#58. But Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with "Hiccup copped it. SORRY," and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.
Cressida Cowell
#59. Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
Harry Truman
#61. My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the groups. So you don't do it, particularly if people in California vote on it, don't want it, they think that the heterosexuality is a societal stabilizer.
Bill O'Reilly
#63. But Julia hasn't a bit of tact; and men, I find, require a great deal. They purr if you rub them the right way and spit if you don't. (That isn't a very elegant metaphor. I mean it figuratively.)
Jean Webster
#64. Buddha said: 'Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,' and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.
Dale Carnegie
#65. Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated
it is an art.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#66. Tact is the ability to formulate your thoughts, carefully choose your words and effectively communicate them without offending anyone. This is the most difficult skill to achieve, the best skill anyone can possess, and the most important skill in our daily lives.
Uzoma Nnadi
#67. Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.
William James
#68. If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.
Barbara Kingsolver
#69. Love is the tact of every good,
The only warmth, the only peace.
Delmore Schwartz
#70. 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
#71. Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#72. To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
Nancy Milford
#73. In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
Robertson Davies
#74. Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country
demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#75. Was that job offer you worked into the blessing? I never saw such tact.
Thomas Harris
#76. It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine.
C.S. Lewis
#77. Sharon exuded the brightness of a firefly, the confidence of a double-decker bus, the optimism of a hedgehog and the tact of a small thermonuclear missile.
Kate Griffin
#78. Valerie Feigen watched in near bewilderment as her husband acquired, haltingly, in fits and starts, a trait resembling tact.
Michael Lewis
#80. Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.
Stephen Fry
#81. Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
Bill Jay
#82. Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.
David Foenkinos
#83. The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
P.G. Wodehouse
#84. Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Samuel Butler
#85. 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.
Hans Eysenck
#86. Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford
#87. I don't know how to talk.
Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Oscar Wilde
#88. In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I - the white barbarian. It is true.
Philip K. Dick
#89. Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.
Tim Tharp
#90. 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.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#91. It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck
Guy Gavriel Kay
#92. Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.
Santosh Kalwar
#93. I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.
Meryl Streep
#94. He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.
Mary Renault
#95. 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.
Charles Horton Cooley
#96. A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that?
Matt Chandler
#97. They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can be counted on never to make a blunder.
W. Somerset Maugham
#98. A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.
Charles Simmons
#99. Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
Mark Twain
#100. The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
