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.

Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is read more

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

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.

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.

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.