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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Tact is good taste in action.
Tact is just lying for adults.
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
Difficulties melt away under tact.
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Talent without tact is only half talent.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.
Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
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.
Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.
