Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
?Sarah Orne Jewett
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
?Samuel Butler
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 Gillmore Simms
Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
?Jean Cocteau
Tact is the ability to make a
person see lightning without
letting him feel the bolt.
?Orlando A. Battista
To be meek, patient, tactful,
modest, honorable, brave,
is not to be either manly or
womanly; it is to be humane.
?Jane Harrison
A spoonful of honey will catch more
flies than a gallon of vinegar.
?Benjamin Franklin
To have the reputation of possessing
the most perfect social tact, talk to
every woman as if you loved her,
and to every man as if he bored you.
?Oscar Wilde
