Quotations and Poems

» “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

»  ”Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.”
– Samuel Butler

»  ”One shouldn’t talk of halters in the hanged man’s house.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

»  ”‘Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

»  ”The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

»  ”Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.”
– Jean Cocteau

»  ”Tact is knowing how far to go too far.”
– Jean Cocteau

»  ”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

»  ”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

»  ”Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

»  ”A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
– Benjamin Franklin

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

»  ”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

»  ”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

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

»  ”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.”
– Howard W. Newton

»  ”Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.”
– Matthew Prior

»  ”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

»  ”‘Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.”
– John Selden

»  ”Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.”
– William Shakespeare

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

»  ”Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Tact is the intelligence of the heart.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”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