| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Tact, the ability to describe others as they see themselves. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Without tact you can learn nothing. |
| Benjamin Franklin | A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. |
| Don Herold | Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. |
| Jane Harrison | To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. |
| Jean Cocteau | Tact is knowing how far to go too far. |
| Jean Cocteau | Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. |
| Oliver Herford | Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | 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. |
| Orlando A Battista | Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. |
| Samuel Butler | It is tact that is golden, not silence. |
| Samuel Butler | Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. |
| William Gillmore Simms | Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents, it supplies the place of many talents. |
| William Gillmore Simms | Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents, it supplies the place of many talents. |
| Oscar Wilde | To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. |
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