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

Tactfulness

Miguel de Cervantes

PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

4.2 · 38 votes · 114 reads

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

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

4.7 · 49 votes

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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.

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AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

4.7 · 47 votes

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

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

4.5 · 35 votes

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It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

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

Tactfulness

Miguel de Cervantes

PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

4.5 · 28 votes

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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.

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

4.4 · 38 votes · 146 reads

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

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WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

4.7 · 40 votes · 195 reads

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

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AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

4.4 · 34 votes

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

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3.5 · 31 votes · 194 reads

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Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
Jean Cocteau
AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century
4.9 · 15 votes · 165 reads
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.9 · 57 votes · 30 reads
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Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
Anonymous
3.4 · 38 votes · 38 reads
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
PoetFrench1636 · 17th century
3.2 · 53 votes · 136 reads
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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
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.4 · 15 votes · 124 reads
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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
PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century
3.4 · 54 votes · 149 reads
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