Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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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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As the dawn comes up like thunder.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
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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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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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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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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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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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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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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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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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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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.'