Tact Quotes
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Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
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...but Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with "Hiccup copped it. SORRY," and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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War is like government, a matter of tact.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.
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People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
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Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.
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Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
