Rudyard Kipling Quotes

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

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• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Thing

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Thing
  • Leads
  • Opposed

• The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Taken

• The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Experience
  • Gentleman

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Unknown
  • Gentleman

• The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • Gentleman

• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Right
  • Trouble
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• Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Thing
  • Advantage

• I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

  

  Doris Day
  • Thing
  • Greatest
  • Dancing

• When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Believe
  • Understand
  • Thing

• The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Artist
  • Thing
  • Exciting

• The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Music
  • Words
  • Blue

• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  

  Geneva Overholser
  • Country
  • Suffering
  • Poverty

• People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Always
  • Legend

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
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  • Gentleman
  • Officer