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 | "Don"t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say
disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation
with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "Step with care and great tact And remember that Life"s a Great
Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up
your right foot with your left." | |
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Dr. Suess
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| "Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is
often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many
talents." | |
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William G. Simms
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| "Tact is rubbing out another"s mistake instead of rubbing it
in." | |
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Unknown
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| "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see
themselves." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Tact is the ability to stay in the middle without getting caught
there." | |
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Franklin P. Jones
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| "Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you
do." | |
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Raymond Mortimer
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| "Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are
arguing, and you know both of them are wrong." | |
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Sir Hugh Percy Allen
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| "We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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