Rudyard Kipling Quotes
-
The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
-
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
-
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
-
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
-
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
-
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.
-
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.
-
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
-
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
-
'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.
-
Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
-
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.
-
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
-
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
-
I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
-
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
-
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
-
We be of one blood, ye and I.
-
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
-
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
-
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.