Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?
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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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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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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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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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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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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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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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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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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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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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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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I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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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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If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!
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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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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
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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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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.