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Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
-George E. Bergman
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
-Samuel Butler
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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
-Samuel Butler
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
-Jean Cocteau
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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
-Jean Cocteau
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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
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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
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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
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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
-Oliver Herford
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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
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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
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
-Sarah Orne Jewett
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
-Howard W. Newton
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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
-Matthew Prior
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'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
-John Selden
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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
-William Shakespeare
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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 is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.
-Source Unknown
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Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Tact, Tactfulness
