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Tag Name "Tact" (91)

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... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.
Anna Julia Cooper
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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Warren W. Wiersbe
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Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.
Albert Payson Terhune
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If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
Benjamin Disraeli
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People's shortcomings should be treated with tact if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.
Zicheng Hong
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
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Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.
Craig Ferguson
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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Tact is just lying for adults.
Cassandra Clare
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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.
William James
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Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
Henry Van Dyke
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
Carl Zuckmayer
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
Horace Greeley
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To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people.
Andrew Jackson
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Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
Edgar Guest
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It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
Joseph Cook
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
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Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Oscar Wilde
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