Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
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If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
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Those who only know England know not England.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
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Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
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Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!
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Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
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Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service.
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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.