A Quote by Samuel Goldwyn

Keep a stiff upper chin. — © Samuel Goldwyn
Keep a stiff upper chin.
And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.
And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.
The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.
We celebrities have stiff upper-lips.
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.
I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to get on with things.
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
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.
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.
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