Tact Quotes

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



Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say.

Henry Van Dyke



The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

P.G. Wodehouse



Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl S. Buck



Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Benjamin Disraeli





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

Abraham Lincoln



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

Eleanor Chaffee



Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett



If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Kahlil Gibran



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

Isaac Newton



One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Margaret Chase Smith