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 courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your read more

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give read more

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for read more

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.