Corps British XIII

Famous quotes containing the words corps and/or british:

“There was nothing to equal it in the whole history of the Corps Diplomatique.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“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)