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    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.

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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

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Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.

by Jean Cocteau Found in: Tact Quotes,
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

by Orlando A. Battista Found in: Tact Quotes,
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Courtesy Quotes,
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

by Jean Paul Richter Found in: Courtesy Quotes,
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Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

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

by Samuel Butler Found in: Tact Quotes,
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; read more

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.

by William Gillmore Simms Found in: Tact Quotes,
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Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

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