A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Charles Horton Cooley
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
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
Dane Cook
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Samuel Butler
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
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
William Gilmore Simms
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
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
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