Gary Oldman Quotes

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

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

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

Sometimes, the best response is no response.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

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

There is no diplomacy like silence.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Sometimes you have to know when to shut the f - - up.

Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.