(44 quotes found)
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
Isaac Newton
“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
“Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing them.”
Arthur Schnitzler
“Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.”
Frank Medlicott
“Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say”
Henry Van Dyke
“The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.”
Sir Philip Sidney
“What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.”
Don Williams Jr.
“It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.”
Marquis De Sade
“Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd”
Benjamin Disraeli
