Norman Mailer Quotes

I know things but I shut my mouth.

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

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

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

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

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

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

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

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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

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

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

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

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

If you're not sure of what to say, don't say anything.

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.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

I don't want to attract attention because I open my mouth.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.