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Tact

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. - George Horace Lorimer

Cultivate tact for it is the mark of culture ... the lubricant of human relations, softening contacts and minimizing friction. - Baltasar Gracian

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends. - Chelsea Handler

In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork. - Wilson Mizner

It cannot be denied that tact is a virtue. The sort of person who always manages to blurt out the tactless thing, apparently by accident, is a person full of dislike of his or her fellow creatures. But although tact is a virtue, it is very closely allied to certain vices; the line between tact and hypocrisy is a very narrow one. I think the distinction comes in the motive: when it is kindliness that makes us wish to please, our tact is the right sort; when it is fear of offending, or desire to obtain some advantage by flattery, our tact is apt to be of a less amiable kind. - Bertrand Russell

It is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler

People with tact have less to retract. - Arnold Glasgow

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. - Frank Medlicott

Step with care and great tact, and remember that life's a great balancing act. - Dr. Seuss

Tact ... is the unsaid part of what you think.... And there is only one thing more potent – its opposite – the unthought part of what you say. - Henry van Dyke

Tact carries a bunch of curiously-fashioned keys, that open all kinds of doors. - Unknown 

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

Tact is a combination of good temper, ready wit, quickness of perception and ability to take in the exigency of the occasion instantly. - Orison Swett Marden

Tact is giving a person a pat on the back when you feel like giving him a kick in the pants. - Evan Esar

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

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents. - William Gillmore Simms

Tact is rubbing out another’s mistakes, not rubbing them in. - Marvin J. Ashton 

Tact is something that goes unnoticed when it is used – but when it is not used, everybody notices. - Unknown

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

Tact is the ability to shut your mouth before someone else does it for you. - Evan Esar

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

Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil. - Franklin P. Jones

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

Tact is the art of dressing the bare facts and draping the naked truth. - Evan Esar

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

Tact is the art of thinking twice before saying nothing. - Evan Esar

Tact is the intelligence of the heart. - Unknown

 

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

Tact is the oil which lubricates society and prevents its harsh and heterogeneous particles from grating against each other; and in proportion as a person possesses this valuable emollient, so will he go roughly or smoothly through the world. - Charles William Day

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

Tact is the rare talent for not admitting you were right in the first place. - Unknown

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; its opposite, the unthought part which you say. - Henry van Dyke

Tact swings the door open to success when merit cannot even turn the knob. - A. D. Hard

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. - Oliver Herford

Tactfulness is being careful to pick the best time for all concerned. Even saying nothing may be the sort of tact that is just right for the situation. - Leo Buscaglia

The possession of tact makes a man a diplomat; the lack of it makes him a miserable failure, irrespective of other ability. - A. D. Hard

The use of tact is always needful but it is especially necessary when speaking a truth that may strike a sensitive nerve in another. - Robert E. Fisher