“How much of what we think of as an admirable response to trauma - the "stiff upper lip" - is actually dissociation,… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
House: I assume 'minimal at best' is your stiff upper lip British way of saying no chance in hell. Chase: I'm Australian.… — House MD Copy Share Image
“The watching feeling is getting worse. I am not an experiment. I am not a stupid joke, or a trippy game, or… — Jenni Fagan Copy Share Image
I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist.… — Lynn Redgrave Copy Share Image
I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Now clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows… — Poltergeist the movie Copy Share Image
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“what freedom is to Americans, thoroughness to Germans, and the stiff upper lip to the British, hygge is to Danes.” — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very frequently Black people and other people of color in this country are taught that they need to be stoic and keep… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
“How? How did you get Torin to Hex Hall?” Dad blinked rapidly, and at first, I thought he was surprised by my… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.” — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“Britain: A nation that keeps a stiff upper lip, takes it on the chin without complaining, plays fair at all times and… — Seán Gearárd McCloskey Copy Share Image
“In other words, what freedom is to Americans, thoroughness to Germans, and the stiff upper lip to the British, hygge is to… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip! — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
