diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2573a136..ec274279 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ Quiet output
 
 ``--quiet`` redirects all output that would otherwise go to ``stdout``
 and ``stderr``  (except for error messages) to ``/dev/null``.
-This doesn’t affect output to a file via ``--output`` or ``--download``:
+This doesn’t affect output to a file via ``--output`` or ``--download``.
 
 .. code-block:: bash