Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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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 man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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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.
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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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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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?