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Rudyard Kipling quotes: And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three. And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
Rudyard Kipling quotes: When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless. When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything. Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen. But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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! On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Anything by Kipling Anything by Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quotes: However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans. However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: What is the moral? Who rides may read. What is the moral? Who rides may read.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: There is no sin greater than ignorance. There is no sin greater than ignorance.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: There is but one task for all One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom fall?[For All We Have and Are] There is but one task for all
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
[For All We Have and Are]
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells. All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: (It is an order!), (It is an order!),
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt. Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream. Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who. I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife. Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Delight in the little things. Delight in the little things.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can? How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The Navy is very old and very wise. The Navy is very old and very wise.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Rudyard Kipling quotes: been lame in one foot from been lame in one foot from
Rudyard Kipling quotes: A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: It's clever, but is it art? It's clever, but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling quotes: He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Mark my trail... Mark my trail...
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with Ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker? What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted. Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,
Rudyard Kipling quotes: He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: 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. 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.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack. Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: It does not matter what people think of a man after his death. It does not matter what people think of a man after his death.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: It's always best to tell the truth. It's always best to tell the truth.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: My heart is so tired My heart is so tired
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay! Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Words are the most powerful drug used by humankind. Words are the most powerful drug used by humankind.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next. When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: I've taken my fun where I've found it. I've taken my fun where I've found it.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies ... but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself. He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies ... but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble
Rudyard Kipling quotes: One cannot resist the lure of Africa. One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The others down by the melon bed. Nagaina spun clear round, The others down by the melon bed. Nagaina spun clear round,
Rudyard Kipling quotes: If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb. If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: I have eaten your bread and salt.I have drunk your water and wine.The deaths ye died I have watched besideAnd the lives ye led were mine. 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.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: We be of one blood, thou and I - We be of one blood, thou and I -
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted. Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: elephant's trumpeting elephant's trumpeting
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own. Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ... If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ...
Rudyard Kipling quotes: For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high. For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Both triumph and disaster are impostors. Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Know too much, young un," said Billy, "and that is one Know too much, young un," said Billy, "and that is one
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest? Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ... The flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ...
Rudyard Kipling quotes: He who faces no calamity gains no courage. He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Only the keeper seesthat,where the ring-dove broodsand the badgers roll at ease,there was once a road through the woods Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods
Rudyard Kipling quotes: What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue
Rudyard Kipling quotes: It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin's Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare. It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week ... The bottom is out of the Universe. We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week ... The bottom is out of the Universe.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child. Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth. Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Sing to your fledglings again, Sing to your fledglings again,
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The world is very lovely, and it's very horribleand it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible
and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: The toad beneath the harrow knowsWhere every separate tooth-point goes ;The butterfly upon the roadPreaches contentment to that toad. The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Seriously, the Burmese girls are very pretty. Seriously, the Burmese girls are very pretty.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance, Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,
Rudyard Kipling quotes: This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
Rudyard Kipling quotes: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: None of the Jungle People like being disturbed. None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done. I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.
Rudyard Kipling quotes: Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

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