“And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."”
Phoebe Cary (1824–1871) American writer
Keep a stiff upper Lip, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“[re Princess Diana's death] I wondered at the time, what had happened to the moral fibre of the island race - the stiff upper lip, if you like - to make them behave like professional mourners howling for hire. The Prime Minister was proud. I was ashamed.”
Dumbing Down, Down, Down... p. 251-252.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
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Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
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“Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ch 10 The Property Is Carried Off
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
Source: Ordinary People
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Speech at the SNP annual conference (24 September 2004), quoted in The Independent, ' Salmond back with threat to impeach PM http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/salmond-back-with-threat-to-impeach-pm-6160873.html' (25 September 2004).
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Quoted as an attribution in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013), p. 268
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