Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
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What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
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Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
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Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.
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It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'
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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
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An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.