15 Quotes on Tact

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

  Author: William Simms

• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

  Author: Isaac Newton

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

  Author: Wilson Mizner

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

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  Author: Ted Koppel

• Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

  Author: Sarah Jewett

• 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.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• 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.

  Author: Hans Eysenck

• Without tact you can learn nothing.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• 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.

  Author: Charles Cooley

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

  Author: Dane Cook

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

  Author: Jean Cocteau

• Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

  Author: Samuel Butler

• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  Author: Samuel Butler

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

  Author: Theodor Adorno

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