“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.[The human element]”
“Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.”
“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”
“Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.”
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”