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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Warren W. Wiersbe
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
Henry James
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel de Cervantes
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford
Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
Jean Cocteau
Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
Matthew Prior
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
Benjamin Disraeli
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
William Shakespeare
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
William Gilmore Simms
Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.
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Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
George E. Bergman
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.
Oscar Wilde
'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
