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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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.
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.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, read more
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation read more
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 the intelligence of the heart
Tact is the intelligence of the heart
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.