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 ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his read more

Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head

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.

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.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

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

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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.