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

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

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.

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.

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.

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

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

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

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