Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
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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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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
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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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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
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The Navy is very old and very wise.
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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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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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Twenty bridges or twenty two — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.