Top 100 Keep Quiet Quotes
#1. That,' he confessed aloud, 'was as ludicrous a case of mutual ineptitude as the gods of slapstick ever engineered. We both deserve to be tickled to death by small green centipedes. Well ... if you keep quiet about it, I will.
Poul Anderson
#2. you're unable to make someone change his views, recognize that he is a child, and clap as he does. Or if you don't care to act in such a way, you have only to keep quiet.
Epictetus
#3. The subject of kissing seemed to be an awkward one. Better keep quiet about it in future. What was obviously important, was to kiss; not talk about it.
Peter St. John
#4. Get over it,' Sherlock said, and looked at her husband. 'No, no, bad dog, keep quiet.
Catherine Coulter
#5. If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
Karl Popper
#6. You would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.
Richard Armour
#7. Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
John Berger
#8. It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
Tony Snow
#9. If I make you read, then I'll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I'll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I'll keep writing.
Thomas Lopinski
#11. I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
Jarvis Cocker
#12. I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#13. For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
John Crowe Ransom
#14. It had taken Oliver years to learn his lesson: keep quiet and let men like Bradenton test the fences. It wouldn't do them any good, and if you were careful, one day you'd be in a position to buy their whole damned farm.
Courtney Milan
#15. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.
Roberto Bolano
#16. I can't promise the universe is gonna tell you what to do with your life up there. But if you can keep quiet and listen close enough, for long enough, it may whisper something you need to hear.
Jessi Kirby
#17. To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#18. When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
Jennifer Donnelly
#19. I am being a minister of light and a destroyer of ignorance and I shall never keep quiet until this horrendous mountain is pulled down in my country, in the church of Christ and in my continent.
Sunday Adelaja
#20. I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?
Lisa Edelstein
#21. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
#22. Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#23. When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
Courtney Milan
#24. A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.
Joseph Sittler
#25. They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel
Katherine Applegate
#26. That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.
Michael Finkel
#27. There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is Consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. begin to realize your divine nature. You do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep quiet.
Robert Adams
#29. Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
Richard Dawkins
#30. The silence was killing me.
And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.
J. Lynn
#32. The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
Booker T. Washington
#33. If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.
Blair Singer
#34. If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Peter Welch
#35. I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you.
Sheilah Graham Westbrook
#37. [...] the only thing you can trust in life is the fish in the sea because they know all the secrets of the world and they keep quiet.
Ishbelle Bee
#38. A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.
Sharan Newman
#39. If you speak to people, you just attract their attention," he said, with a shaking voice. "You should just keep quiet and still and they overlook you. I've been doing it all my life. I know how to do it. Your way, you just - you make yourself visible.
Philip Pullman
#40. I will not keep quiet until a revolution is started to fight ignorance and superstitions in the church of the lord Jesus Christ and in the nation of my birth.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Express yourself completely. Then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature; When it blows, there is only wind; When it rains, there is only rain; When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.
Lao-Tzu
#42. Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
Pat Sajak
#43. Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.
Rodney Dangerfield
#44. Keep quiet about a toothpick in today's butter and next thing you know you'll be findin' a doorknob in the cottage cheese.
Alan Bradley
#45. Oh, very well," he said crossly. "Come along if you must, but please keep quiet so I may think. I need to think!"
"Yes, sir," I said, pulling on my clothes. "I will try not to be a burden to you sir.
Rick Yancey
#46. I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
David Steel
#47. Even if no one is listening to you or you are being persecuted, go on speaking, do not keep quiet
Sunday Adelaja
#48. If our words cannot enhance the peace
We should keep quiet and use our ears
The extent of our perception will increase
As we'll be less to blame for others' tears
Joan Marques
#49. Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.
Josh Radnor
#50. Remember the plan?" Hunter asked as they drew closer to their target.
Kristen looked at him sceptically. "'Keep quiet and don't get seen' is not a very professional plan. Did you have anything else to add?
K.S. Marsden
#51. In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.
Fatima Bhutto
#52. Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.
Mooji
#53. With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some of the pictures have a common flavour, almost a common smell, which groups them together. Keep quiet and watch and they will begin joining themselves up.(quoting C.S. Lewis)
E.J. Kirk
#54. if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.
Peter Nadas
#56. A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.
Walter Moers
#57. Logan shot to his feet. I can't keep quiet anymore. You all are stupid idiots if you think that. Don't you know her? Don't you know Mason? My god, I'm embarrassed to call you ass-dults!
Tijan
#58. A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Malcolm De Chazal
#59. I never know what you're thinking. Sometimes you're so closed off ... like an island slate. You intimidate me. That's why I keep quiet. I don't know which way your mood is going to go. It swings from north to south and back again in a nanosecond.
E.L. James
#60. Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him say something good or keep quiet.
Muhammad
#61. One lajdak doesn't make a Poland. Keep quiet, pretty boy, eat your candy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.
Auliq Ice
#63. Until custom had changed the colour of the curtains, made the clock keep quiet, brought
Marcel Proust
#64. If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe.
Alison Golden
#65. He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.
George R R Martin
#66. 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
#69. Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#70. I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.
Rumi
#71. Count the number of times you have spoken. And really meant what you have said. Count the number of times you have chosen to keep quiet instead.
Jay Woodman
#72. On the 25th March, at 14:57GMT, the world stopped for 27 minutes and 54 seconds. No-one noticed at first. Those that eventually did were ordered to keep quiet.
Anonymous
#73. Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
Eliphas Levi
#74. There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep quiet when they are not wanted, and, when taken up, bring us face to face with the choicest men who ever lived, at their choicest moments.
Samuel Palmer
#75. We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten.
Greg Bear
#76. So hot and tight. You're going to be a screamer. You're already fighting to keep quiet, and I've barely started. His low, hoarse voice sent shivers down her back.
Julia Devlin
#77. One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
Hunter Tylo
#78. If what you wear says more about who you are then what you say when you speak, then my advice is to keep quiet and wear loud clothing.
Jarod Kintz
#79. He shouted and he heard his shout and he feared it and shouted back asking it to keep quiet but he didn't pay any head to his shout and shouted with renewed vigor. One shouts the shout one hears.
Aporva Kala
#80. Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.
Rajneesh
#81. I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.
Mos Def
#82. I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.
Brian Welch
#83. The "keep quiet and look good" living is always easier than heart-baring, mistake-admitting, choosing-humility life offered in Jesus.
Kara Tippetts
#85. Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
Dennis Rodman
#86. Because there are a million thoughts that never sleep
and a million more that wake up as each second passes by ...
And it's insanity inside
but I can no longer keep quiet
Oh, I can't speak as well
I need to write
I have to write ...
Sanhita Baruah
#87. I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.
Sherwood Anderson
#88. Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?
Kirk Douglas
#89. The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.
James McBride
#90. When you smile, serious ideas get exhausted. At night the mountains keep quiet beside you, in the morning the sand goes with you down to the beach. When you do nice things to me all the heavy industries shut down.
Yehuda Amichai
#91. And it was easier to let him keep on touching me than ask him to stop, easier to let him inside than to push him away, easier than hearing him ask me, "Why not?" It was easier to keep quiet and take it than to give him an answer.
Jesmyn Ward
#92. When the science speaks, religion must keep quiet! When the master speaks, hold your tongue, don't make a noise!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.
T.E. Lawrence
#94. He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
Stephen Chbosky
#96. Keep quiet and say one's prayers - certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#97. There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.
Isabel Allende
#98. It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.
Drake
#99. I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
Abraham Lincoln
#100. You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand.
Stephen Chbosky
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