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Tact Definition

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Charles Horton Cooley

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 Holmes

I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
Dane Cook

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

It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Samuel Butler

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

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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

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

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

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

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli

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