Tact quotes

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◆ Some people are just like some schools during summer, they have, NO CLASS.

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◆ Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.'

- Gretchen Rubin99

◆ 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 Franklin99

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

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ 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.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes99

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

- Isaac Newton99

◆ 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

- William Gilmore Simms99

◆ The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning.

- Charles Tremper99

◆ Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

- Abel Stevens99

◆ Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd

- Benjamin Disraeli99

◆ What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

- Don Williams Jr99

◆ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

- Voltaire99

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

- Jean Cocteau99

◆ We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

- Albert Einstein99