Royal Rifle Corps

Famous quotes containing the words royal, rifle and/or corps:

    “The captain sat in a commodore’s hat
    And dined in a royal way
    On toasted pigs and pickles and figs
    And gummery bread each day.”
    —Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    “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)

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