You Better Shut Your Mouth Quotes

#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

#2. 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

#3. I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.

Uwem Akpan

#4. As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

Prince Philip

#5. You better ignore this.
You better staple your eyes shut
and put pot-lids over your ears
and pinch your nose with vice grips
and cement your mouth shut
with real cement and while
you're at it or in it or whatever
cut off your hands for good measure

B.J. Ward

#6. Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

Ashwin Sanghi

#7. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Salman Rushdie

#8. 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

#9. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,

Anonymous

#10. I am the little man who smokes & smokes.
I am the girl who does know better but.
I am the king of the pool.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

John Berryman

#11. It's better to keep one's mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubts.

Diana Palmer

#12. My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

Tori Spelling

#13. You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

Andy Rooney

#14. But then if I'm being honest, most happy-sounding things probably wouldn't suit him. He could be riding the Matterhorn at Disneyland while eating ten tubs of gingerbread ice cream and still seem as fierce and angry as fuck.

Charlotte Stein

#15. All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

Walter Russell

#16. it's better to keep my mouth shut and look stupid than open it and prove it.

Rich Amooi

#17. When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Louise Brown

#18. 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

#19. Why search in vain
in every door in which we will not exist
because we have not arrived yet?
That is how I found out
that I was exactly like you
and like everybody.

Pablo Neruda

#20. He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth ...

Charlaine Harris