Tact And Tactfulness

(282 votes)   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
1819-1881, American Author

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(159 votes)   Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(154 votes)   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
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(143 votes)   One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(118 votes)   Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(110 votes)   Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Crisp
1908-, British Author

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(110 votes)   Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

George E. Bergman

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(103 votes)   Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

Matthew Prior
1664-1721, British Diplomat, Poet

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(103 votes)   Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(103 votes)   So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(101 votes)   A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(85 votes)   To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(81 votes)   Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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

William Gilmore Simms
1806-1870, American Author

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(63 votes)   Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.

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