Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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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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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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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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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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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
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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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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!