Top 134 Tact Quotes & Sayings

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

Tact is good taste in action.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

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

The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

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

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Tact is just lying for adults.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

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.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Difficulties melt away under tact.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

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

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

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.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.

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. Tact is an active quality t hat is not exercised by merely making a dash for cover. Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

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

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

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.

War is like government, a matter of tact.

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.

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.