Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

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.

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

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.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

As the dawn comes up like thunder.

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

it's always best to tell the truth.

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

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.

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.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

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.'

I keep six honest serving men.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.