Oliver Herford Quotes

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

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

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I know things but I shut my mouth.

… to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

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

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual now-a-days to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.