Keep My Mouth Shut Quotes

“Things changed. Maybe I didn't recognize what I felt then, but I do now. I'm a stupid girl who fell in love with her friend, and that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that I'll lose everything if I tell you. This little patch of happiness will wither and die, and it will be all my fault, because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I'd rather have you as a friend than not at all.”

— H.M. Ward

“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

“I have to keep my mouth shut about Nam though. All of these guys want to believe they were fighting an honorable war, and that their conduct deserves respect. They want the public to treat them like they're heroes-like the WWII vets were." "Instead, smart ass, pampered kids call them names and throw dog shit at them.”

— Bud Rudesill

“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

“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

“I just can't comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn't keep your mouth shut.”

— Steen Langstrup

“I decided to keep my mouth shut. Sometimes I'm capable of it.”

— Rick Riordan

“You get this drama, babe, you got until the end of Tack's meeting to burn it out, but mark this, Lanie. After that meeting, I don't give a fuck if you're strapped into a rocket to go to the goddamned moon, I'm findin' you, we're sortin' this shit out and we're movin' on," he warned. "I just made a mental note to find a plastic surgeon who does emergency face alterations so you won't know who to look for," I shot back. "Jesus, I'm pissed as all fuck and still she's cute," he groused like he wasn't talking to me but actually complaining to the Son of God. "Jesus works on Sunday, Hop. You want a direct line, time to haul your biker ass to church," I shared. "You want me to let you go so you can burn this out, you better stop bein' cute, lady. You keep bein' cute, I'll kiss you in the goddamn forecourt and I won't give a fuck who sees." I snapped my mouth shut. "That's what I thought," he”

— Kristen Ashley

“People are motivated by three things, Rachel. Love ... " A red marker clattered in with the rest. "Revenge ... " A black one landed next to it. "And power," she finished, tossing in a green one. "Trent has enough money to buy all three."
"You forgot one," I said, wondering if I should just keep my mouth shut. "Family.”

— Kim Harrison

“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

“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

“One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.”

— Eric Clapton

“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

“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

“It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike
in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”

— Harper Lee

“I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.”

— Garrett Hedlund

“I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.”

— Greil Marcus

“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

“And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.”

— Janice Dickinson

“It's a good thing while you have superior hearing, I possess superior abilities to keep my mouth shut.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“I was told to keep my mouth shut," Manon said. Her grandmother's eyes flashed. "Unless you'd prefer I get on my knees and grovel.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“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

“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

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

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“I'm staying out of this. It's the whole culture of all-consuming nowness I try to avoid. Ever present and screaming its message in the halls, on television, on everyone's personal web pages. Do me, I'm yours. I'm part of the counterculture who actually thinks about the future. Subversive activities are always best kept a secret so I keep my mouth shut.”

— Deb Caletti

“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

“It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.”

— James Van Der Beek

“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

“But I love you, " he whispered. "Doesn't that matter?" "Of course it matters. So much. Can't you see? That only makes it more ... necessary." His eyes flashed open. "Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? I can keep my mouth shut, Wanda. I won't say it again. You can be with Jared, if that's what you want. Just stay.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“Thanks, Jeb," Kyle said.
"Shut the hell up, Kyle. Just keep you fat mouth shut. I'm dead serious about shooting you, you worthless maggot.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.”

— Dean Martin

“It was the first time I discovered that some girls actually sneak out of the house during slumber parties and meet up with boys. I would've never known if I hadn't gone to the bathroom at midnight and caught Macy and Adrienne climbing through the bathroom window. They had on eyeliner, perfume, and cut-off shorts. Their only goodbye a glare that promised retribution if I didn't keep my mouth shut.”

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.”

— Frank Stella

“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

“There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.”

— Viggo Mortensen

“I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.”

— Megan Whalen Turner

“I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be cool, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut. So I was either talking for the sake of talking, or I was curled up with a book somewhere hiding from everyone.”

— Anthony Jeselnik

“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

“I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .”

— John Lennon

“I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.”

— Gabrielle

“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

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

— Prince Philip

“The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.”

— Groucho Marx

“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

“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

“Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Often times, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself.”

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Malcolm Forbes