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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

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.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.