Quotes: Tact

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Isaac Newton

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Theodor Adorno

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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Jean Cocteau

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

William Gilmore Simms

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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.

Hans Eysenck

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Without tact you can learn nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

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I have the necessary lack of tact.

Ted Koppel

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In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Wilson Mizner

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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