British Rifle Fire

Famous quotes containing the words british, rifle and/or fire:

“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
—Robert Morley (1908–1992)

“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“a man sleeps where fire leapt down and she learns through his arm
That other sun, the jealous coursing of the unrivalled blood.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)