Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
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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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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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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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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.
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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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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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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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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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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
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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.