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Tact is the intelligence of the heart
Tact is the intelligence of the heart
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 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
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.
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.
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be read more
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
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 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.