Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Tact is the result of refined sympathy.

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

"Tact" is insulting a man without his knowing it.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I hadn’t gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.

Le bon goût, le tact et le bon ton, ont plus de rapport que n'affectent de le croire les Gens de Lettres. Le tact, c'est le bon goût appliqué au main- tien et à la conduite; le bon ton, c'est le bon goût appliqué aux discours et à la conversation.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

11) There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.

Tactility is space of the interval.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.