Born British

Famous quotes containing the words born and/or british:

“Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”
—John Buchan (1875–1940)

“The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.”
—Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)