Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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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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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
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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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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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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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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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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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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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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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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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After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
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The Navy is very old and very wise.
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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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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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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.