Regiment Bengal Native

Famous quotes containing the words regiment, bengal and/or native:

    “What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “In Bengal to move at all
    Is seldom, if ever, done,
    But mad dogs and Englishmen
    Go out in the midday sun.”
    —Noël Coward (1899–1973)

    “The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
    If thou the spirit give by which I pray;
    My unassisted heart is barren clay,
    Which of its native self can nothing feed;”
    —Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564)