It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form’s sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.
The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense
Tags: war burma second-world-war stiff-upper-lip
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 movieTags: inspirational movies stiff-upper-lip
After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.
Paul BowlesTags: stiff-upper-lip
27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it.
Psyche Roxas-MendozaTags: women sanity public-opinion generations privacy generation-gap stiff-upper-lip
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