Top 100 Quotes About Mouth Shut
#1. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I
Elizabeth Bear
#3. Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.
Ilona Andrews
#4. If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep
your mouth shut
Simon Munnery
#6. On top of everything else," he said immediately, "we've got 'Wise Child' complexes. We've never really got off the goddam air. Not one of us. We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound. At least I do ... it's impossible for me to keep my mouth shut.
J.D. Salinger
#7. I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.
James Badge Dale
#8. Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
Margaret Atwood
#9. If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
Albert Einstein
#10. Stop whimpering and snapping at me, I'm sick of it. Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.
George R R Martin
#13. Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut
Albert Einstein
#14. Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#15. She decided to keep her mouth shut until the map arrived, to prevent herself from betraying the stratospheric heights of her irritability.
Kristin Cashore
#16. I decided to keep my mouth shut. Sometimes I'm capable of it.
Rick Riordan
#17. (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.
Thomas Mann
#18. X + Y + Z
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
#19. One must say; be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut.
M.F. Moonzajer
#20. Chris just watches, but he can't keep his mouth shut for long. Excellent, everyone is serving me. I'm glad you guys have finally figured out how it should be ... now you just need to convince the world.
Kate Sherwood
#21. Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
Aldous Huxley
#22. Shut up, Arthur,' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child.
Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned.
Sarah Winman
#23. I've always tried to be an actor who ... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives ... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.
Michael Gambon
#24. The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.
Al Bernstein
#25. The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
Allan Sloan
#26. Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#27. I know Mischa, but you know how the politburo runs. If I say one word of this in there, I'll be out of my job the next day.' Remember, Gorbachev only became general secretary after he had kept his mouth shut under three predecessors.
Markus Wolf
#28. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
#29. If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
Lewis Goldberg
#30. You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
Robert De Niro
#31. His face was like a law of nature - a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint.
Ayn Rand
#32. If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.
Donna Tartt
#33. I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it off call, break my own heart.
Tegan Quin
#34. I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong ... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.
Kenny Wormald
#35. Usually, I go through life with my mouth shut. I'm a loner, mainly because I'm more comfortable alone.
Nikki Sex
#36. You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
Megan Whalen Turner
#37. She is like me.
Silent.
I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence.
Introspection requires you to think and analyze.
It's hard to do that when you are blabbing away.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#38. a busy man, Shaw, with business concerns on two continents. Obviously you agree with my statement." Shaw smiled slightly. "My lord, since my 'sexual congress' is limited exclusively to my wife, who happens to be your sister, I believe I'll have the good sense to keep my mouth shut.
Lisa Kleypas
#39. I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.
Jane Wyman
#40. Barbie wasn't sure there was that much difference between city mice and country mice when they were under stress, but he kept his mouth shut.
Stephen King
#41. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
Thomas Pynchon
#42. So much of being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.
Emma Straub
#43. Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.
Laozi
#44. Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.
Douglas Coupland
#45. The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.
Ernest Bramah
#46. Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.
Dean Cavanagh
#47. Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose."
"Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.
Sylvain Neuvel
#48. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
Anne Frank
#49. Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself."
"My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said.
Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail.
Kristin Cashore
#50. If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.
Richard Castle
#51. I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn't told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there's a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can't see what it looks like.
Rebecca Stead
#52. See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
Jim Butcher
#53. Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.
Sandra Bullock
#54. Humping my leg like a dog in heat every time I'm around you doesn't prove you like me, Daemon.' Daemon clamped his mouth shut, and I could tell he was fighting back laughter. 'Actually, that's how I show people I like them.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#55. The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian)
From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick)
One day, Gaitor bait ... (Kyrian)
Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.
Tom Felton
#57. I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
Fred Melamed
#58. A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.
Oswald Chambers
#59. If only he would keep his mouth shut, he'd be perfect. A piece of duct tape would do the trick. I had some in my desk that I'd occasionally pull out and fondle, hoping someday I could put it to good use.
Christina Lauren
#60. Success is not a distant dream,it is a reality for those who sweat to achieve it,enjoy sleepless nights, take calculative steps through the day,and with self introspection keeps it humble with a smile.Then success gets loud with the achiever's mouth shut,while the world celebrates one's victory.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#61. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
Malcolm Forbes
#62. Just keep your mouth shut and smile. That's always good advice.' Jezal
Joe Abercrombie
#63. Head clear. Mouth shut. See much. Say little.
Stephen King
#64. Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.
Dan Brown
#66. Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny ... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.
Julio Cortazar
#67. Vodka was evil; pure liquid evil. She needed to learn to keep her mouth shut. She needed to learn that vodka was not her friend. Much like Alex wasn't likely to be if she couldn't extricate herself from this.
Erin Lawless
#68. it's better to keep my mouth shut and look stupid than open it and prove it.
Rich Amooi
#69. I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.
Lynda Barry
#70. If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!
Roland Freisler
#71. The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
Willem Dafoe
#72. Being on the left is a no-brainer. You don't have to do anything to be on the left. You just have to keep your mouth shut and go along with the crowd.
Jon Voight
#73. I'll leave before anyone wakes up. Promise." "They'll hear us," I said, my heart pounding in growing panic. "I'll take off my boots." "How will that help you keep your mouth shut while we have sex?
Missy Welsh
#74. On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
Rachel Sklar
#75. One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
Eric Clapton
#76. If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
Austin O'Malley
#77. Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.
Duff McKagan
#78. I quickly learned that as the ex-whatever, you only get so many golden opportunities to keep your mouth shut, and you should take advantage of every single one.
Chris Hadfield
#79. In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
Jose Padilha
#80. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
Patrick Rothfuss
#81. If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
Sue Grafton
#82. Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?
Ashwin Sanghi
#83. I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.
Gabrielle
#84. I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.
Kid Rock
#85. How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.
Agatha Christie
#86. Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.
Kalan Sherrard
#87. To bring him back, alive rather than dead." Puller kept his mouth shut. "I want to know what you've found out
David Baldacci
#89. Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
Peter Drucker
#90. Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!"
"Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.
Diana Wynne Jones
#91. I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.
Jodie Whittaker
#93. I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
Dan Stevens
#94. The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
CM Punk
#95. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him ... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
Will Rogers
#96. If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.
Muhammad Ali
#97. I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.
Mark Martin
#98. A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.
Evan Esar
#99. Went with one (Assassin) for a while ... lovely lass, but she couldn't keep her mouth shut, even in bed. Sometimes I wonder if any profession really guards its secrets as closely as they claim.
Robert Asprin
#100. And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?
David Hewson
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