Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.
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 with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Without tact you can learn nothing.
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; it supplies the place of many talents.
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.