Tact Quotes

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

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

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.

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

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

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

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.

"Tact is just not saying true stuff, I`ll pass."

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

You can`t use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

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.