Rudyard Kipling Quotes
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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.
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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!
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.
Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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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