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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. - Ambrose Bierce Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. - Jean Cocteau Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer. - Charles Caleb Colton In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. - Robertson Davies Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Without tact you can learn nothing. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett Talent is something, but tact is everything. Talent is serious, sober, grave, and respectable; tact is all that, and more, too. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. - William Pitt Scargill 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. - William Gilmore Simms I have known some men possessed of good qualities, which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sundial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbors and passengers, but not the owner within. - Jonathan Swift A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force might vainly strive to overcome. - Unknown
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