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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON TACT
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
George E. Bergman
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
George E. Bergman
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright)
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963, French author, filmmaker)
Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963, French author, filmmaker)
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999, British author)
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford (1863-1935, American author, illustrator)
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881, American author)
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
Henry James (1843-1916, American author)
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909, American author)
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
Raymond Mortimer
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton
Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721, British diplomat, poet)
Guard your mouth as well as you guard your chest.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis De Sade (1740-1814, French author)
'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden (1584-1654, British jurist, statesman)
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870, American author)
Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they were.
Author Unknown
Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.
Author Unknown
Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
Author Unknown
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