quotes about Tact
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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
-- Chelsea HandlerSource : Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.
-- Dr. SeussSource : Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”
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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
-- Earl Tupper -
Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
-- Eddie CantorSource : "Harriet the Spy".
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Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
-- Edgar Guest -
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I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
-- Gregory Peck -
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
-- Gretchen RubinSource : Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.13, HarperCollins
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Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
-- Jean Cocteau -
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
-- Joseph Cook -
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
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Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
-- Oliver Herford -
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
-- Orlando Aloysius BattistaSource : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
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The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
-- Puzant Kevork Thomajan -
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
-- Raymond Mortimer -
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I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.
-- Perry Brass