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Abraham Lincoln
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Ambrose Bierce
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
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Don Herold
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
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Jane Harrison
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
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Oliver Herford
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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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.
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Orlando A. Battista
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
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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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Samuel Butler
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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.
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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.
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