Stiff upper lip Quote by Paul Bowles

“You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.”

— Robert Aickman

“There is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of dress.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“So many people today are emotionally constipated. Let that ”

— Sanjo Jendayi

“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be…

— Irvine Welsh

“And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue.”

— Alice Randall

“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

— Beryl Markham

“I’m so constipated that every time I go to shit, the only thing that comes out is political rhetoric.”

— Jarod Kintz

“But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s when all…

— Marisha Pessl

“I’m not stuck up. I’m constipated.
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— Jarod Kintz

“English people are not mass-produced. They do not come off a factory line all looking, speaking, thinking, acting the same. Neither do we.”

— Paul Scott

“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually…

— E.M. Forster