Jane Wyman Quotes

I know things but I shut my mouth.

Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

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

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

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.

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

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

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

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

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

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

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

I've learned to keep your mouth shut even when something bad is going on. You never know how someone is going to take something you say. You have to bite the bullet.

A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

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

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.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

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

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