Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

— Bergman, George E.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

— Butler, Samuel

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

— Butler, Samuel

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

— Cervantes, Miguel De

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

— Cervantes, Miguel De

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

— Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

— Cocteau, Jean

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

— Cocteau, Jean

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.

— Crisp, Quentin

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.

— Disraeli, Benjamin

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

— Disraeli, Benjamin

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

— Franklin, Benjamin

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

— Herford, Oliver

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

— Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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.

— James, Henry

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

— Jewett, Sarah Orne

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

— Lincoln, Abraham

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

— Newton, Howard W.

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

— Prior, Matthew

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.

— Sade, Marquis De

'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

— Selden, John

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

— Shakespeare, William

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

— Simms, William Gilmore

Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.

— Unknown, Source

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

— Unknown, Source

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.

— Wilde, Oscar