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Tact Quotes

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The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Authors on Tact Quotes: Benjamin Disraeli Orlando Aloysius Battista Puzant Kevork Thomajan Mason Cooley Chelsea Handler Gretchen Rubin Agatha Christie Natalie Clifford Barney Perry Brass Horace Greeley Ambrose Bierce Henry Van Dyke Darynda Jones Nathaniel Hawthorne Barbara Kingsolver Ted Koppel Jean Cocteau Diane de Poitiers Francis Bacon Eddie Cantor Robertson Davies Joseph Cook Cassandra Clare Leo Buscaglia Edgar Guest Oliver Herford Earl Tupper Marvin J. Ashton Charlotte Bronte Gregory Peck
2.
Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.
Marvin J. Ashton

3.
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
Orlando Aloysius Battista

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I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
Gregory Peck

5.
Tact is good taste in action.
Diane de Poitiers

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Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
Henry Van Dyke

7.
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
Gretchen Rubin

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Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford

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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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Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.
Eddie Cantor

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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli

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If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.
Barbara Kingsolver

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Talent without tact is only half talent.
Horace Greeley

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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
Earl Tupper

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It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
Joseph Cook

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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
Leo Buscaglia

18.
There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
Agatha Christie

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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Francis Bacon

21.
You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.
Mason Cooley

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Difficulties melt away under tact.
Benjamin Disraeli

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In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
Robertson Davies

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I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.
Perry Brass

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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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He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.
Darynda Jones

27.
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel

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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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Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
Edgar Guest

30.
Tact is just lying for adults.
Cassandra Clare

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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
Charlotte Bronte