To Keep Your Mouth Shut Quotes

#1. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

Agatha Christie

#2. 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. 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

#4. So much of being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Emma Straub

#5. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

Anne Frank

#6. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Malcolm Forbes

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.

Rachel Sklar

#10. 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

#11. Let me deal with him. If he turns up dead in the river you'll know to keep your mouth shut and provide me an alibi.

Sally Thorne

#12. We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

Anne Frank

#13. Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.

Robert Newton Peck

#14. Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Winston S. Churchill

#15. If you've to keep your mouth shut, then keep your mouth shut, no matter what you're feeling.

Sarvesh Jain

#16. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#17. Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Robbie Williams

#19. 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

#20. That is the problem with age and wisdom - it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Bill Bonner

#21. Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn't fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don't give away free tapestries.

Rick Riordan

#22. I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Tony Gonzalez

#23. When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

Georges Duhamel

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

Duff McKagan

#27. If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!

Roland Freisler

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

Lewis Goldberg

#31. 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

#32. Love Is: being able to keep your fucking mouth shut.

Christopher Brookmyre

#33. I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Elisabeth Elliot

#34. Only keep your ears open and your mouth shut and everything will lead you to everything else in the end - ogni

C.S. Lewis

#35. I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

Audre Lorde

#36. All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Margaret Atwood

#37. How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

Margaret Atwood

#38. I've done more for the 9/11 families, by their own admission, I've done more for them than you will ever hope to do so you keep your mouth shut.

Bill O'Reilly

#39. 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

#40. It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

Jamie Bell

#41. Wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright...resist the temptation to trifle with other people's feelings.

Elisabeth Elliot

#42. You like rock?
Little boy, I'm not your friend. I'm not your Dark-Hunter and I'm not your friggin' date. You only speak to me when I ask you a question. Otherwise you keep your mouth shut, your eyes off me, and you might live long enough to get me to the French Quarter. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#43. That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your [expletive]ing mouth shut.

Charlie Huston