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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)

It is tact that is golden, not silence. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - William Gillmore Simms)

Tact is knowing how far to go too far. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. (Quote by - Orlando A. Battista)

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. (Quote by - Jane Harrison)

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)

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. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Without tact you can learn nothing. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. (Quote by - Don Herold)

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - William Gillmore Simms)

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

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