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.

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 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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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 after all a kind of mind reading.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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.

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.