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Quotes about tact and tactfulness

  • 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)
  • The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is knowing how far to go too far. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. (Butler Samuel)
  • 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. (Butler Samuel)
  • 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. (Butler Samuel)
  • Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. (Butler Samuel)
  • A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. (Butler Samuel)
  • 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. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. (Butler Samuel)
  • Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. (Butler Samuel)
  • 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. (Butler Samuel)
  • Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen. (Butler Samuel)
  • Tact is the intelligence of the heart. (Butler Samuel)
  • 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. (Butler Samuel)
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