Born British

Famous quotes containing the words born and/or british:

“When you’re born you don’t bring it with you; when you die you can’t take it with you.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)