Kipling Quotes

#1. Then the Kolokolo Bird said with a mournful cry, Go to the banks of the great, grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#2. Now I shall go far and far into the North,
playing the Great Game #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#3. Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#4. Wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real body of doctrine which they teach. I am not concerned with Mr. Rudyard Kipling as a vivid artist or a vigorous personality; I am concerned with him as a Heretic - that is to say, a man whose view of things has the hardihood to differ from mine. I am not concerned with Mr. Bernard Shaw as one of the most brilliant and one of the most honest men alive; I am concerned with him as a Heretic - that is to say, a man whose philosophy is quite solid, quite coherent, and quite wrong. #Quote by G.K. Chesterton

#5. This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#6. What's the trouble?" I said, knowing well what that trouble was.

"I've a notion in my head that would make the most splendid story that was ever written. Do let me write it out here. It's such a notion!"

There was no resisting the appeal. I set him a table; he hardly thanked me, but plunged into the work at once. For half an hour the pen scratched without stopping. Then Charlie sighed and tugged his hair. The scratching grew slower, there were more erasures, and at last ceased. The finest story in the world would not come forth.

"It looks such awful rot now," he said, mournfully. "And yet it seemed so good when I was thinking about it. What's wrong?"

I could not dishearten him by saying the truth. So I answered: "Perhaps you don't feel in the mood for writing."

"Yes I do--except when I look at this stuff. Ugh!"

"Read me what you've done," I said.

"He read, and it was wondrous bad, and he paused at all the specially turgid sentences, expecting a little approval; for he was proud of those sentences, as I knew he would be.

"It needs compression," I suggested, cautiously.

"I hate cutting my things down. I don't think you could alter a word here without spoiling the sense. It reads better aloud than when I was writing it."

"Charlie, you're suffering from an alarming disease afflicting a numerous class. Put the thing by, and tackle it again in a week."

"I want to #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#7. Commenting acidly on a writer whom I perhaps too naively admired, my old classics teacher put on his best sneer to ask: 'Wouldn't you say, Hitchens, that his writing was somewhat journalistic?' This lofty schoolmaster employed my name sarcastically, and stressed the last term as if he meant it to sting, and it rankled even more than he had intended. Later on in life, I found that I still used to mutter and improve my long-meditated reply. Émile Zola - a journalist. Charles Dickens - a journalist. Thomas Paine - another journalist. Mark Twain. Rudyard Kipling. George Orwell - a journalist par excellence. Somewhere in my cortex was the idea to which Orwell himself once gave explicit shape: the idea that 'mere' writing of this sort could aspire to become an art, and that the word 'journalist' - like the ironic modern English usage of the word 'hack' - could lose its association with the trivial and the evanescent. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#8. Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#9. Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#10. No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#11. I feel like I'm in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to look at his big, blank empty canvas. And in a way I am. Except that i'm not struggling. I'm Hector Kipling. I might be getting up at all hours of the night to look at my big, blank, empty canvas, but I am not fucking struggling. #Quote by David Thewlis

#12. As he stood in the red light of the oil-lamp, strong, tall, and beautiful, his long black hair sweeping over his shoulders, the knife swinging at his neck, and his head crowned with a wreath of white jasmine, he might easily have been mistaken for some wild god of a jungle legend. -"Son," she said at last, - her eyes were full of pride, - "have any told thee that thou art beautiful beyond all men?"
"Hah?" said Mowgli, for naturally he had never heard anything of the kind. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#13. That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#14. One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#15. The White Seal Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas! Seal Lullaby #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#16. The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel's Ammu was fed to it. Her hair, her skin, her smile. Her voice. They way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, though and I. Her goodnight kiss. The way she held their faces steady with one hand (squashed-cheeked, fish-mouthed) while she parted and combed their hair with the other. The way she held knickers out for Rahel to climb into. Left leg, right leg. All this was fed to the beast, and it was satisfied.
She was their Ammu and their Baba and she had loved them Double. #Quote by Arundhati Roy

#17. Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings. #Quote by Liz Williams

#18. Payday came and with it beer #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#19. Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#20. There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and woman to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#21. I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus) #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#22. How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can? #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#23. TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told: #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#24. Who has delivered us, who? Tell me his nest and his name. Rikki, the valiant, the true, Tikki, with eyeballs of flame, Rikk-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eyeballs of flame! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#25. One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more, worth suppressing. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#26. 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. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#27. elephant's trumpeting #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#28. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#29. What appeared as unendurable hardship to soldiers of other nationalities produced a species of exhilaration in our lads, raised on a diet of Kipling and institutional porridge. Some #Quote by Steven Pressfield

#30. Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#31. Tiger! Tiger! What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride? Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair - to die. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#32. India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why; #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#33. Those who only know England know not England. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#34. Promised his love to keep her quiet - that he had never #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#35. Rudyard Kipling was the only popular writer of this century who was not at the same time a thoroughly bad writer. #Quote by George Orwell

#36. I take many things seriously. Rudyard Kipling, Harper Lee, Oscar Wilde, and Elmore Leonard are all held in the highest regard. I am dead serious when I discuss the many reasons that Ernest Hemingway's greatest contribution to literature was his generous decision to take his own life. I will not be sucked into a discussion of politics by people who prefer emotion to reason. The designated hitter is an abomination, and the day pitchers and catchers report is the start of the new year despite what those ill-informed calendar makers might try to tell you." "I #Quote by Brian D. Meeks

#37. For Kim did nothing with an immense success. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#38. (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi) #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#39. Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#40. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#41. Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#42. If I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#43. There are gems of wondrous brightness
Ofttimes lying at our feet,
And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
Down the busy, crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken,
We would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading
To the earth some jewel rare. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#44. 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. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#45. When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#46. When I called it quits, I stopped in the lobby to thank the concierge again for letting me use Mr. Kipling's beautiful desk. "I'm so glad you enjoyed it," he replied. He was wearing a misty, reminiscent little smile, as if he had known the writer himself. "Kipling died there, actually. Of a stroke. While he was writing. #Quote by Stephen King

#47. What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.
[Baldwin was attacking the leading press barons of his day (Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere); the phrase was suggested by Baldwin's cousin Rudyard Kipling (17 March 1931)] #Quote by Stanley Baldwin

#48. Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#49. Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk - as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#50. One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#51. Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#52. Because when River Joshua Kipling decided you were worth protecting, he did it with everything he had. #Quote by Abbi Glines

#53. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
At the hole where he went in
Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin.
Hear what little Red-Eye saith:
"Nag, come up and dance with death!"
Eye to eye and head to head,
(Keep the measure, Nag.)
This shall end when one is dead;
(At thy pleasure, Nag.)
Turn for turn and twist for twist
(Run and hide thee, Nag.)
Hah! The hooded Death has missed!
(Woe betide thee, Nag!) #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#54. O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#55. Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee - the madness - and run. "Enter, #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#56. Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#57. 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. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#58. There is no harm in a man's cub. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#59. When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue.
The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#60. This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#61. And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#62. It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?'
Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#63. It's a sort of dull unhappiness that comes from isolation & blankness & monotony. It is quite different to the dullness & melancholia at home; I believe people have it sometimes in Kipling & it is, I think, in the air of the country. I went for a walk the other night by the side of the lagoon at sunset; the beauty of it was supreme with the bright green of the paddy fields, the masses of palms, the sky every shade of red & yellow, & the sea every shade of blue; but for all the brilliancy of colour there was a heavy melancholy over it all. #Quote by Leonard Woolf

#64. Something I owe to the soil that grew
More to the life that fed
But most to Allah who gave me two
Separate sides to my head. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#65. Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#66. Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#67. What is the moral? Who rides may read. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#68. Like Princes crowned they bore them
Like Demi-Gods they wrought,
When the New World lay before them
In headlong fact and thought.
Fate and their foemen proved them
Above all meed of praise,
And Gloriana loved them,
And Shakespeare wrote them plays!
...
Now Valour, Youth, and Life's delight break forth
In flames of wondrous deed, and thought sublime
Lightly to mould new worlds or lightly loose
Words that shall shake and shape all after-time!
Giants with giants, wits with wits engage,
And England-England-England takes the breath
Of morning, body and soul, till the great Age
Fulfills in one great chord:
Elizabeth! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#69. As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#70. The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow -
They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men go.
The People of the Western Ice, they learn to steal and fight;
"They sell their furs to the trading-post: they sell their souls to the white.
The People of the Southern Ice, they trade with the whaler's crew;
Their women have many ribbons, but their tents are torn and few.
But the People of the Elder Ice, beyond the white man's ken -
Their spears are made of the narwhal-horn, and they are the last of the Men! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#71. Men who are accustomed to eat at tiny tables in howling gales have curiously neat and finished manners; #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#72. I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#73. No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#74. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#75. To things greater than all things are, The first is Love, and the second War. And since we know not how War may prove, Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#76. Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#77. The heart of a man to the heart of a maid-
Light of my tents, be fleet-
Morning awaits at the end of the world,
And the world is all at our feet. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#78. It will be seen that, as used, the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else. #Quote by George Orwell

#79. Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade."
"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#80. The Law of the Jungle
NOW this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;
And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep.

The Jackal may follow the Tiger, but, Cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
Remember the Wolf is a Hunter - go forth and get food of thine own.

Keep peace withe Lords of the Jungle - the Tiger, the Panther, and Bear.
And trouble not Hathi the Silent, and mock not the Boar in his lair.

When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken - it may be fair words shall prevail.

When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must fight him alone and afar,
Lest others take part in the quarrel, and the Pack be diminished by war.

The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home,
Not even the Head Wolf may enter, not even the Council may come.

The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, but where he has digged it too plain,
The Council shall send him a message, and so he shall ch #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#81. Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another,
which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#82. The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar - Who follows in his train? I #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#83. 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. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#84. From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. #Quote by Oscar Wilde

#85. Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#86. If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ... #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#87. Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#88. 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 #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#89. No one thinks of winter when the grass is green. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#90. Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#91. Trees and men do not grow together, #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#92. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. #Quote by Roald Dahl

#93. Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#94. Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#95. Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spend and unconsidered Earth,
The cities will rise again #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#96. One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about. #Quote by Michael Ende

#97. THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" "Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave," - W.E. Henley. His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and he lived in the north of London, coming into the City every day to work in a bank. He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations. I met him in a public billiard-saloon where the marker called him by his given name, and he called the marker "Bullseyes." Charlie explained, a little nervously, that he had only come to the place to look on, and since looking on at games of skill is not a cheap amusement for the young, I suggested that Charlie should go back to his mother. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#98. Remember, Bagheera loved thee," he cried, and bounded away. At the foot of the hill he cried again long and loud, "Good hunting on a new trail, Master of the Jungle! Remember, Bagheera loved thee. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#99. 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! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#100. During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. #Quote by George Orwell

#101. Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#102. If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#103. Sing to your fledglings again, #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#104. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools ... #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#105. This was to me a far more terrible loss than the two that I had suffered before. For though, Lord help me, I had travelled far enough from all paths of decent or godly living, yet there was in me, though I myself write it, a certain goodness of heart which, when I was sober (or sick) made me very sorry of all that I had done before the fit came on me. And this I lost wholly: having in place thereof another deadly coldness at the heart. I am not, as I have before said, ready with my pen, so I fear that what I have just written may not be readily understood. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#106. An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#107. Something is coming uphill," said Mother Wolf, twitching one ear. "Get ready." The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap. Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world - the wolf checked in mid-spring. He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at, and then he tried to stop himself. The result was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet, landing almost #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#108. None of the Jungle People like being disturbed. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#109. He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#110. The meaning of my star is war. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#111. They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper's Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. "In the early days," Fanny recalled, "we all delighted in Longfellow and Mrs. Browning and Owen Meredith." Later, they turned to Swinburne, Kipling, Shelley, and Shakespeare. The Roosevelts #Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

#112. We be of one blood, thou and I - #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#113. For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#114. Everyone is more or less mad on one point. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#115. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly. #Quote by George Orwell

#116. Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#117. The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise. #Quote by Dale Carnegie

#118. What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#119. A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#120. If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#121. Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free - The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call! - Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#122. Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#123. Whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last. She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. So she #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#124. Both triumph and disaster are impostors. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#125. If you cross examine a child of seven or eight on his day's doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep), he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture - religious as well as scientific. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#126. Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#127. I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#128. When he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight. Indeed, we are very grateful to Shere Khan!" "Shall I tell him of your gratitude?" said Tabaqui. "Out!" snapped Father Wolf. "Out and hunt with thy master. Thou hast done harm enough for one night." "I go," said Tabaqui quietly. "Ye can hear Shere Khan below in the thickets. I might have saved myself the message." Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#129. Where are the fish, though?"
"In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#130. Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#131. I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant. #Quote by Michael Morpurgo

#132. If you can try to nap where someone's sitting,
Although there is another empty chair,
Then rub against his ankle without quitting
Until he rises from your favorite lair;
If you can whine and whimper by a portal
Until the bolted door is opened wide,
Then howl as if you've got a wound that's mortal
Until he comes and lets you back inside;
If you can give a guest a nasty spiking,
But purr when you are petted by a thief;
If you can find the food not to your liking
Because they put some cheese in with the beef;
If you can leave no proffered hand unbitten,
And pay no heed to any rule or ban,
then all will say you are a Cat, my kitten.
And
which is more
you'll make a fool of Man! #Quote by Henry N. Beard

#133. It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is as Kipling put it, to fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run. #Quote by Stephen Fry

#134. If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss ... #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#135. Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain ... #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#136. To each his own fear'; #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#137. 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! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#138. Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it ... #Quote by Grant Morrison

#139. Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#140. What is this," said the leopard,"that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light? #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#141. If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you ... The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#142. Outsong in the Jungle

[Baloo:] For the sake of him who showed
One wise Frog the Jungle-Road,
Keep the Law the Man-Pack make
For thy blind old Baloo's sake!
Clean or tainted, hot or stale,
Hold it as it were the Trail,
Through the day and through the night,
Questing neither left nor right.
For the sake of him who loves
Thee beyond all else that moves,
When thy Pack would make thee pain,
Say: "Tabaqui sings again."
When thy Pack would work thee ill,
Say: "Shere Khan is yet to kill."
When the knife is drawn to slay,
Keep the Law and go thy way.
(Root and honey, palm and spathe,
Guard a cub from harm and scathe!)

Wood and Water, Wind and Tree,
Jungle-Favour go with thee!

[Kaa:] Anger is the egg of Fear--
Only lidless eyes see clear.
Cobra-poison none may leech--
Even so with Cobra-speech.
Open talk shall call to thee
Strength, whose mate is Courtesy.
Send no lunge beyond thy length.
Lend no rotten bough thy strength.
Gauge thy gape with buck or goat,
Lest thine eye should choke thy throat.
After gorging, wouldst thou sleep ?
Look thy den be hid and deep,
Lest a wrong, by thee forgot,
Draw thy killer to the spot.
East and West and North and South,
Wash thy hide and close thy mouth.
(Pit and rift and blue pool-brim,
Middle-Jungle follow him!)

Wood and Water, W #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#143. Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#144. Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures,
I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours:
In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all,
That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#145. All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#146. He spent all that day roaming #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#147. Ts! Ts!" said Kaa, shaking his head to and fro. "I also have known what love is. There are tales I could tell that - "

"That need a clear night when we are all well fed to praise properly," said Bagheera, quickly. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#148. Now whither does THIS trail lead?" Kaa's voice was gentler. "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#149. Here the voice told him truthfully what sort of wife he had wedded, and what she was doing in his absence. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#150. Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro
And what should they know of England who only England know?
The English Flag, Stanza 1 (1891) #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#151. I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple: "The magic that is always demanding gifts is no true magic," said she. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#152. Hunting Verse - Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#153. One man in a thousand, Solomon says.
Will stick more close than a brother.
And it's worth while seeking him half your days
If you find him before the other.
The Thousandth Man #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#154. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#155. A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#156. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#157. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#158. Then Kotick roared to the seals: I've done my best for you these five seasons past. I've found you the island where you'll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won't believe. I'm going to teach you now. Look out for yourselves! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#159. Christmas In India

Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow --
As the women in the village grind the corn,
And the parrots seek the riverside, each calling to his fellow
That the Day, the staring Easter Day is born.
Oh the white dust on the highway! Oh the stenches in the byway!
Oh the clammy fog that hovers
And at Home they're making merry 'neath the white and scarlet berry --
What part have India's exiles in their mirth?

Full day begind the tamarisks -- the sky is blue and staring --
As the cattle crawl afield beneath the yoke,
And they bear One o'er the field-path, who is past all hope or caring,
To the ghat below the curling wreaths of smoke.
Call on Rama, going slowly, as ye bear a brother lowly --
Call on Rama -- he may hear, perhaps, your voice!
With our hymn-books and our psalters we appeal to other altars,
And to-day we bid "good Christian men rejoice!"

High noon behind the tamarisks -- the sun is hot above us --
As at Home the Christmas Day is breaking wan.
They will drink our healths at dinner -- those who tell us how they love us,
And forget us till another year be gone!
Oh the toil that knows no breaking! Oh the Heimweh, ceaseless, aching!
Oh the black dividing Sea and alien Plain!
Youth was cheap -- wherefore we sold it.
Gold was good -- we hoped to hold it,
And to-day we know the fulness of our gain.
#Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#160. Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#161. Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#162. Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#163. The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#164. He has oppressed Beetle, M'Turk, and me, privatim et seriatim, one by one, as he could catch us. But now he has insulted Number Five up in the music-room, and in the presence of these - these ossifers of the Ninety-third, wot look like hairdressers. Binjimin, we must make him cry "Capivi!"'
Stalky's reading did not include Browning or Ruskin. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#165. Kipling called it a very long conversation. #Quote by Lauren Groff

#166. No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#167. Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#168. One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#169. The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach, not to criticize, just for love - he read it, as Kipling wrote it, just because he liked to, wanted to, couldn't help himself. To him it wasn't a means to a lecture or article, it was an end; he read it not for anything he could get out of it, but for itself. And isn't this what the work of art demands of us? The work of art, Rilke said, says to us always: You must change your life. It demands of us that we too see things as ends, not as means - that we too know them and love them for their own sake. This change is beyond us, perhaps, during the active, greedy, and powerful hours of our lives; but duringthe contemplative and sympathetic hours of our reading, our listening, our looking, it is surely within our power, if we choose to make it so, if we choose to let one part of our nature follow its natural desires. So I say to you, for a closing sentence, Read at whim! read at whim! #Quote by Randall Jarrell

#170. (An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#171. The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#172. It does not matter what people think of a man after his death. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#173. The Three-Decker

"The three-volume novel is extinct."

Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail.
It cost a watch to steer her, and a week to shorten sail;
But, spite all modern notions, I found her first and best -
The only certain packet for the Islands of the Blest.

Fair held the breeze behind us - 'twas warm with lovers' prayers.
We'd stolen wills for ballast and a crew of missing heirs.
They shipped as Able Bastards till the Wicked Nurse confessed,
And they worked the old three-decker to the Islands of the Blest.

By ways no gaze could follow, a course unspoiled of Cook,
Per Fancy, fleetest in man, our titled berths we took
With maids of matchless beauty and parentage unguessed,
And a Church of England parson for the Islands of the Blest.

We asked no social questions - we pumped no hidden shame -
We never talked obstetrics when the Little Stranger came:
We left the Lord in Heaven, we left the fiends in Hell.
We weren't exactly Yussufs, but - Zuleika didn't tell.

No moral doubt assailed us, so when the port we neared,
The villain had his flogging at the gangway, and we cheered.
'Twas fiddle in the forc's'le - 'twas garlands on the mast,
For every one got married, and I went ashore at last.

I left 'em all in couples a-kissing on the decks.
I left the lovers loving and the parents signing cheques.
In endl #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#174. Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#175. There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#176. So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married.

But that is a story for grown-ups. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#177. I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#178. Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#179. It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended); further, that they were malignant in their dispositions, untrustworthy in their characters, pernicious and revolutionary in their influences, abandoned to the devils of wilfulness, pride, and a most intolerable conceit. Ninthly, and lastly, they were to have a care and to be very careful. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#180. He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#181. As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#182. 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 #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#183. 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! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#184. Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.' #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#185. 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. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#186. Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#187. For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#188. However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#189. If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#190. The flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ... #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#191. Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever. #Quote by Kipling Swehla

#192. It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#193. The Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton – the big fat blade bone – and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the first Singing Magic in the world. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#194. Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away! #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#195. Love is as iffy as Kipling. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#196. But why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle? #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#197. It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#198. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#199. He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World #Quote by Rudyard Kipling

#200. The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034? #Quote by Shashi Tharoor