Quotes for All
Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog’s owner. But no man –spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort– may become a dog’s Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is … Read more
There’s been a lot of comparisons to The Prisoner, and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a compliment, in the sense that what I felt The Prisoner was for the ’60’s, in how the individual triumphs over the state and authority, our show is … Read more
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. Alan Rickman
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. Raymond Mortimer
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he’s the hell of a diplomat. Agnes Sligh Turnbull
There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating. Agatha Christie
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton