Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. – William Gilmore Simms

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. – Marquis De Sade

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. – Sarah Orne Jewett

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. – Miguel de Cervantes