Jessie J Quotes

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

The British do not expect happiness …. They do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

The Queen is not supposed to have a favourite or prefer anything. From a very young age, they are taught that if you fall down, you don't make a face; you keep your emotions under control, and you don't let other people know what you're feeling. That's a very different kind of way of thinking from how I was brought up.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

I'm English. All we do is blush.

The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.

You don't gotta let the girls know you're sweating, honey.

In fighting, if you get hit in the face, you don't show it. You can't show it.

We're like quirky Brits!

I'm not really a crying type.

I don't know what it is to feel very British, but I feel that it's home, so I'm very happy to represent Great Britain.

I am not an over-the-top kind of person.