Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

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

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

I've learned never to ask a woman if she's pregnant.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.