Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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 am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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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.
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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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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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
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After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus. It's all one, says the Sapper. There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!
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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
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Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
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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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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.