Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
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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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As the dawn comes up like thunder.
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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other.
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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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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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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.
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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
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They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?
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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.