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Tag Name "Tact" (91)

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The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
Leo Buscaglia
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The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
Jean Cocteau
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The offender needs pity, not wrath those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'
Marcus Aurelius
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War is like government, a matter of tact.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
Hudson Taylor
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I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Chelsea Handler
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Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
Charles Horton Cooley
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There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
Chester A. Arthur
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What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Francis Bacon
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
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In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
Robertson Davies
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel
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A little oil makes machinery work easy.
Fanny Fern
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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