Michael Caine Quotes

What can I say? I'm a talker.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

When I say something about anything, there's really not much left to be said. Which is why I don't tell you everything I think about everything.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Speech is the small change of silence.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are loud.

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

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

I've really learned to watch what I say.

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

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

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

Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.