British Stiff Upper Lip Quotes

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

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.

Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people.

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year - the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that's Bermuda's revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

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

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

In England we are sort of very awkward.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.