Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
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Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
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How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
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God help us for we knew the worst too young.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!
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When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'
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I keep six honest serving men.
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There is no harm in a man's cub.
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At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.