It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse. — Eartha Kitt
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
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness. — Democritus
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. — Francois FeNelon
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful. — Mark McKinnon
Short Tactful Quotes
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. — Puzant Kevork Thomajan
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. — Dr. Seuss
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. — Warren W. Wiersbe
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. — Gregory Peck
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen. — Unknown
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were. — George E. Bergman
It is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. — Harry S. Truman
Tact is good taste in action. — Diane de Poitiers
Tactful Image Quotes
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
Being Tactful Quotes
Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me. — Mary Church Terrell
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities. — Nuno Oliveira
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
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains. — Dr. Seuss
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
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness. — Zicheng Hong
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
Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit. — Judith Orloff
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
Tact Quotes
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount. — Mary Church Terrell
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings. — David Sedaris
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors. — Chester A. Arthur
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. — Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them. — Josiah Gilbert Holland
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. — B. H. Liddell Hart
What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment. — Tilda Swinton
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate. — Charles Horton Cooley
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
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. 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
... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity. — Anna Julia Cooper
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. — Dr. Seuss
Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God. — Albert Payson Terhune
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. — Oliver Herford
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think. — Henry Van Dyke
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line. — Robert E. Lee
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. — Jean Cocteau
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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