Quotes About Stiff Upper Lip

#1. Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

Tullian Tchividjian

#2. The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.

Bhagawan Nityananda

#3. In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Lucille Clifton

#4. I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.

Evelyn Lauder

#5. You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain.

Amanda Craig

#6. Farmers buy a lot of computers.

Seymour Cray

#7. I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC

Stephen King

#8. Ah, well,' I said resignedly, 'if that's that, that's that, what?' 'So it would appear, sir.' 'Nothing to do but keep the chin up and the upper lip as stiff as can be managed. I think I'll go to bed with an improving book. Have you read The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish by Rex West?

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

Asif Ali Zardari

#10. Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.

Cesar Aira

#11. Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

Jeremy Brett

#12. No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

Byron Nelson

#13. After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.

Paul Bowles

#14. Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

Phoebe Cary

#15. The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

Ulysses S. Grant

#16. In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

Saint John Chrysostom

#17. she entered the room, clean and dressed, he turned to greet her. A smile lit his face as he looked her over from top to bottom. She gave a little spin and asked, "How do I look?" She knew what he thought, but wanted to hear the answer anyway.

Jeannette Winters

#18. For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

Michael Jeffery

#19. Your mother says she will be brave and keep a stiff upper lip," said Father. "Americans are heartless. I will cry into my pillow every night.

Cassandra Clare

#20. And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

Lynn Redgrave

#21. 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

#22. We start the year on the other side of the world, at the Australian Open, and then just chase the sun.

Andre Agassi

#23. Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

Rajneesh

#24. Time is on the side of truth.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

Phoebe Cary

#26. And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

Jessie J.

#27. Now, clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.

Poltergeist The Movie

#28. It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

Mark Twain