Top 100 Be Quiet Quotes
#2. Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as ... as ... "
"Dead mice?" Reynie suggested.
"Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#3. Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.
Sathya Sai Baba
#4. Who knew sex was the magical elixir to get you to be quiet," Ian said with a smirk and a quirk of one eyebrow.
Janet Eckford
#5. I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
Faith Evans
#6. I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.
Robert Jordan
#7. Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#8. Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to be quiet.
Anne Rice
#9. My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
Christina Applegate
#10. God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
Vance Havner
#11. It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.
Pope Francis
#12. Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.
Mooji
#13. Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime.
Marilynne Robinson
#14. With all the insolence she swallowed, it was a wonder her corsets still laced. Retort after rejoinder after sharp-edged remark: Why do you address me? What can I possibly have to say to a man who would split a pair of fives? Be quiet. Go to sleep. Go away. Come back when you have another erection.
Cecilia Grant
#15. I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
Zachary Quinto
#16. It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.
Sun Tzu
#17. Don't tell anyone I said it?"
I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman's kitchen.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. I've prowled the dirtiest back alleys of sadness, okay? And I know what it's like to fight for your life on those mean streets. So if you need someone to vent to or someone to be quiet with or someone to talk your ear off, I can be that person. I'm not scared of the dark places.
Emery Lord
#19. And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
#20. I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.
Stephen Dobyns
#21. Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
Salman Rushdie
#22. If you ever don't know which direction to go in, or you start moving in the right direction but then get lost along the way, don't get rattled and start moving fast, this way and that. Instead, stand still and be quiet. Then you'll be showed which way to go.
Sandra Kring
#23. Blotches of blood looked more like a soupspoon than an R. Several people told him angrily to be quiet.
Jeanne DuPrau
#24. It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Charlie Munger
#25. Like a dog, I have pack needs; like a cat, he prefers a quieter house. As long as he is married to me, his house will never be quiet.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#26. Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.
Silas House
#27. It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women.
It's more like Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.
Lauryn Hill
#28. If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.
Joel Osteen
#29. I wish you'd be quiet," I muttered. "I also wish we had snowshoes." "You'd need Uller for that," said the goat. "Who?" "The god of snowshoes," said Otis. "He invented them. Also archery and ... I don't know, other stuff.
Rick Riordan
#30. An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
Christian De Portzamparc
#31. This house is always going to be quiet now, I should get used to it. Laughter will no longer run rampant through the hallways, decorating each room.
Kimberly Russell
#32. Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke." Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?" "Not particularly." "Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.
Julia Quinn
#33. When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
Zach Wamp
#34. Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
James Altucher
#36. It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.
Frances Hardinge
#37. I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.
Dominic Monaghan
#38. I heard the front door open and Rita hustled into the house, home from dropping the children at school. She went through the living room and into the kitchen making all the loud and distinct sounds of someone trying to be quiet.
Jeff Lindsay
#39. Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence."
Rumi
#40. Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#41. Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.
Judith Wright
#42. If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#44. It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#45. Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Then let's be quiet together.
Leonard Cohen
#46. The spirit within each human being is a small fragment of the Divine and Eternal, and if we give it the opportunity to speak, it will do so - but only when we keep our engagement to dismiss everyday difficulties, be quiet, and listen.
Faith Baldwin
#47. The key is to be quiet. It's not that
your mind has to be quiet. You be quiet.
You, the one inside watching the
neurotic mind, just relax.
Michael Singer
#48. You cannot be quiet about things that you know.
Ed Begley Jr.
#49. You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
#50. Someone asked them to be quiet, so it's just a matter of a time before all hell breaks loose.
Brian Andreas
#51. It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Jesse Jackson
#52. Be quiet. If I'm shushed by one more person, I'm going to take it out on you. I hate being shushed.
Tijan
#53. ("This is all sounding pretty fairy tale-ish," Conor said, suspiciously.)
(You would not say that if you heard the screams of a man killed by a spear, said the monster. Or his cries of terror as he was torn to pieces by wolves. Now be quiet.)
Patrick Ness
#54. There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.
Marian Wright Edelman
#55. Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.
Matthew Lillard
#56. You have to be quiet," I said. "We don't want to wake up the ladies. I don't think I want 'em to see me all drunk like this."
"It's not really me we have to worry about, Dino."
"Shit, am I too loud?"
"Yes. Shut up.
Elle Parker
#57. There's a thing in poetry called the caesura a pause between words, a silence. I thought: that's what real friendship is, too. Someone you can be quiet with. Someone who understands your mistakes and forgives you.
Margo Rabb
#58. Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.
Rachel Joyce
#59. Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#60. Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
Marc Anthony
#61. From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
Mark Hoppus
#62. I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.
Richelle Mead
#63. Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'
Leslie Mann
#64. I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.
Noor Iskandar
#65. You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
Victoria Justice
#66. I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don't necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they're watching.
John Darnielle
#67. I won't move a muscle, I won't come out, I'll be quiet, I promise. Besides, I'm not the hero type.
Shelly Crane
#68. The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
Robert Hass
#69. My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.
Mindy Kaling
#70. The flawed must be quiet; they must not bring attention to their aberrations.
Olukemi Amala
#71. For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on.
Mark Haddon
#72. Before you say anything censorious about anyone, ask yourself three questions: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If the answer to any one of these is even a qualified no, you'd best be quiet." And she remembered it. Miss
Helen Epstein
#73. Hodor, hush," said Bran. "Be quiet now. No more stupid hodoring.
George R R Martin
#74. Uhm, Kevin ... "
"Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here."
Yes, this was definitely Forced Sex.
Thank goodness.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#75. There had been options, before the baby, but none of them had been pursued ... I had been quiet when there was no reason to be quiet, consisten when consistency didn't matter. For the last twenty years I had lived as if I were taking care of a newborn baby.
Miranda July
#76. Be profound, be funny, or be quiet.
N.a.
#77. [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck
'
[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.
Maria V. Snyder
#78. Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
Bear Grylls
#79. They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning.
Initially NO
#80. I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
Walton Goggins
#81. The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
#82. He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross,
Clearly used to silence and an armchair:
Tonight the wife and children will be quiet
At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.
Seamus Heaney
#83. The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#84. Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap," declared Listen.
"You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met."
"Both of you be quiet,
Nancy Farmer
#85. the best academic grounding for their son may be quiet, sustained play at home and a kindergarten that emphasizes socialization, play, and the out-of-doors.
Michael Thompson
#87. People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.
Nick Offerman
#88. The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure
Alois Podhajsky
#89. Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.
Alexandra Adornetto
#90. Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more.
Magenta Periwinkle
#91. Sometimes it's about us, sometimes it's about you, and sometimes it's about me. This time it was about you. Now be quiet and enjoy the beach.
Sidney Halston
#92. If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.
Daniel Radcliffe
#93. Oh yes, your relationship with Miss Bard is positively ordinary."
"Be quiet."
"Crossing worlds, killing royals, saving cities. The marks of every good courtship.
V.E Schwab
#94. I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.
David Klass
#95. If you would all be quiet and let me finish," continued Dudge. "Oh, all right, finish your yapping," pined Donsay Hat.
L.R.W. Lee
#96. I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.
Tori Kelly
#97. We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.
Marty Rubin
#98. Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience.
Alison Weir
#99. Even with the intention to be quiet, human beings seldom can restrain from comment or at least grumbled cursing; we are the chattering species, as much as we are anything else - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 56 chapter 7
Dean Koontz
#100. I rolled my eyes."Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before.
Alexandra Adornetto
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