Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old tact quotes, tact sayings, and tact proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Tact is giving a person a pat on the back when you feel like giving him a kick in the pants.Evan Esar
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Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil.Franklin P. Jones
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In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.Wilson Mizner
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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.Harry S. Truman
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Honey, tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.Karen Walker
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.Orlando A. Battista
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Tact is the ability to shut your mouth before someone else does it for you.Evan Esar
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People with tact have less to retract.Arnold H. Glasow
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.Samuel Butler
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.Abraham Lincoln
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.Isaac Newton
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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
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Nowadays, tact is the last thing you would expect from a social setting and being blunt is even considered a quality that one should possess if he or she wants to make it big.Monet Lu
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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
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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
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Tact is the intelligence of the heart.unknown
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.Benjamin Disraeli
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Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.unknown
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.Jean Cocteau
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.Benjamin Disraeli
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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.William Simms
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Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. Hugh Allen
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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
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Tact is a relation in which a nonverbal stimulus or circumstance acts as a discriminative stimulus for a verbal response.H. W. REESE & L. J. PARROTT
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett
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Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.Henry Van Dyke
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. Theodor W. Adorno