Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.
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.
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
There is but one task for all
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
[For All We Have and Are]
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
[For All We Have and Are]
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
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.
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?
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.
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.
When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.
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.
If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb.
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.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine.
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted.
I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.
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.
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?
Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods
It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare.
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare.
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.
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible
and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.
Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
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.