Quotes About Tact

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

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.

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

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

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