Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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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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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
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The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
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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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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.
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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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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
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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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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Believe the best of everybody.