Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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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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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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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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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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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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Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
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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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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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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
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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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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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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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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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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
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A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.