100+ Rudyard Kipling Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.3290, e-artnow

Topics: Nature, Trouble, Neighbour

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Topics: Running, Witty, Work, Best Poetry, Distance Running

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Topics: Women, Science, Males, Clever Woman, Mustard

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Topics: Fall, Learning, Looks

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

Topics: Kissing, Men, Eggs, Moustache, Romantic Kiss

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

Topics: Equality, People, Diversity, Equality For All

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

source: - Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

Topics: Powerful, Reading, Health, Using Words, Languages Communication

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.

Topics: Birthday, Son, Men

It's clever, but is it Art?

Topics: Art, Clever

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Topics: Mad, Insanity, Madness

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Topics: Clever, Men, Needs, Clever Woman, Very Clever

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

Topics: Mother, Daughter, House, Mother And Daughter

Payday came and with it beer

Topics: Beer, Payday, Great Beer, Great Drinking

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Topics: Meaningful, Adventure, Moments, Brief Life, Brevity

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Topics: Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated Edition): The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Just So Stories, Kim, The Light That Failed, Captain Courageous, Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.474, e-artnow

Topics: Ignorance, Remember, Sin

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

Topics: Enough, Productivity

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Topics: Women, Intuition, Certainty, Clever Woman, International Women's Day

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Topics: Power, Two, Triumph

(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.

Topics: Childhood, Preparation, Unhappy, Discrepancies, Discrepancies Between

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

Topics: Animal, Wild Dogs, Cat Dog, Dog Rescue, Pet Dog

Believe the best of everybody.

Topics: Inspirational, Believe, Be Respectful

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Topics: Lying, Eye, Garden, More Than Meets The Eye

When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

Topics: Dog, Men, Names, Man And Dog, Wild Dogs

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

Topics: Dog, Politics, Concern

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

Topics: Sleep, Heart, Moon, Brave Heart

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

Topics: Men, Effort, Too Much, Work Effort, Too Much Work

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

source: - "If - " st. 4 (1910)

Topics: Life, Running, Hurt, Loving Friends, Unforgiving

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

Topics: Misunderstood, West, East, Cranberries, Stew

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Topics: Fear, Doubt

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

Topics: Men, Forgiving, Nuisance, Learn To Forgive

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.

Topics: Tea, Week, Leaks, Kettles, Green Tea

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Topics: Humble, Sacrifice

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Topics: Unity, Packs

This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.

Topics: Land, Burma

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Topics: Military, Army, Men, Military Force, Military Man

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.

Topics: Baby, Cat, Moon

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.

Topics: Angel, Forever, Hammers, Chisels

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Bullets

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

Topics: Temptation, Sloth, Lazy

... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;

Topics: Military, Gentleman, Officers

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Topics: Tombstone, Lying, Fighting, Deceased, East And West

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.

Topics: Men, Meals, Culture, Thrice

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

Topics: War, Gun, Devil

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!

Topics: Dream, England, Paint

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

Topics: Brother, Tails, Behinds

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Topics: Gardening, Done, Half

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

Topics: Mean, Winning, Gambling

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.

Topics: New York, Reflection, Pigs, Trough

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Topics: Sea, Unhappy, Sailor, Skipper

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

Topics: Lying, Two, Earth, Memorial Stone, Headstone

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

Topics: Pay, Abundance, Said

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

Topics: Fire, Pieces, Doe

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

Topics: Teeth, Toads

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Topics: Men, Folly, Meddling, Thankless

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

Topics: Reading, May, Riding

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!

Topics: Money, Art, Stars

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

Topics: Women, Land, Maidens, Greener, Cleaners

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Topics: Women, Heart, Home, Forsake

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.

Topics: Mean, Worry, Pieces, Clean House, Housekeeping

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Topics: Failure, England, Failing

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Topics: Sheep, Black, Gentleman, Black Sheep

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.

Topics: Years, Mind, Half

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Topics: Littles, Wheels, Tin

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.

Topics: Women, Heart, Sight

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!

Topics: Country, Sleep, Gun

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

Topics: Want, What You Want, Bargaining

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 ...

source: - "If - " st. 2 (1910)

Topics: Dream, Tired, Thinking, Thoughts In Your Head

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.

Topics: Substance, Done, Records

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

Topics: Book, Reading, Men

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

Topics: Judging, Done, Littles

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.

Topics: Two, Want, Wellness

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

Topics: Memorial, Good Work, Masters

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.

Topics: Men, Ships, East

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

Topics: Time, Flower, Eye, Transience

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:

Topics: Bridges, Two, Rivers, Thames, Twenty Two

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!'

Topics: Motivational, Heart, Long

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.

Topics: Fall, Fighting, Blood, Armageddon

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!

Topics: Men, Needs, May

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Topics: Wise, Lying, Hate, Being Hated, Being Lied

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Topics: Life, Bullying, Being Yourself, Just Being You, I Think Of You

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

Topics: Men, Honor, Who Cares

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.

source: - Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

Topics: Leadership, Education, Learning, Questions Asked, Teacher Motivational

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

Topics: Pages, Possibility, Chapters, Endless Possibilities

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.44, e-artnow

Topics: Lying, Islands, Sea

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

Topics: Gains, Faces, Calamity

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

Topics: Dream

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Topics: Lovely, World, Care

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Topics: Mothers Day, God, Christian, Jewish Mother, Special Mother

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Topics: Inspirational, Giving, Can Do

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Prayer, War, Soldier, Slighted, Kipling

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

Topics: Gun, Thug, Ems

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…”, p.535, e-artnow

Topics: Winter, Thinking, Green

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

Topics: War, Men, Evil

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.3716, e-artnow

Topics: Simple, Giving, Causes

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Topics: Son, Men, Success And Failure

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.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

Topics: Morning, Dark, Night, Glisten, Deep Dark

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.

source: - Traffics and Discoveries "Mrs. Bathurst" (1904)

Topics: Beauty, Memories, Men

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.

Topics: Country, Money, Men

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.83, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Topics: Temper, Jungle, Depends

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

Topics: Ignorance, Sin, Greater

Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…”, p.474, e-artnow

Topics: Anomalies, Shirts, Charming

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

source: - Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Young British Soldier"

Topics: Thank You, Cutting, Army

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

Topics: Speak, Know How, Jungle

Funny how the new things are the old things.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.3064, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Topics: Old Things, New Things

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.6845, e-artnow

Topics: Real, Cities, Desire, City Of Chicago

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.

Topics: Lying, Knowledge, Jewels, Crowded, Gems

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Topics: Life, Motivational, Mean

There's no jealousy in the grave.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…”, p.3352, e-artnow

Topics: Graves

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

source: - "The Betrothed" st. 25 (1886)

Topics: Funny, Marriage, Cigarette Smoke, Pipe Smoking, Funny Smoking

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

Topics: Men, Two, World, Trays

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4737, e-artnow

Topics: Insulting, Dialect, Language, Slang, Provincialism

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2005). “Captains Courageous”, p.125, Penguin

Topics: Horse, Men, Dead Man

it's always best to tell the truth.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Tales from India”, p.253, General Press

Topics: Telling The Truth

Each dog barks in his own yard!

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Topics: Dog, Yards, Bark

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.40, Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Self Harm, Ears, Way

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!

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…”, p.3333, e-artnow

Topics: Nice, Thinking, Sea

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.740, e-artnow

Topics: Love You, Ponies, Noses

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

source: - 'Rewards and Fairies' (1910) 'If - '

Topics: Dream, Masters, Ifs

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Topics: Law, Giving, Tongue

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4459, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Topics: Men, Deeds, Term

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (1920). “The Jungle Book”, p.274

Topics: Kind, Cowardice, Worst

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.5343, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Topics: Men, Sensible

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Topics: Wife, Mistress, Literature

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

source: - "13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck". Book by Ashwin Sanghi, 2014.

Topics: Funny, Death, Suicide

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.8297, Delphi Classics

Topics: Rage, Score, Scholar

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.229, 谷月社

Topics: India, Sun

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.6748, Delphi Classics

Topics: Captains, Ships, Gale

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.

Topics: Hero, Soul, Lines, Red Lines

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

source: - Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Conundrum of the Workshops"

Topics: Art, Rude, Joy

Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?

source: - Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

Topics: Art, Real, Classic

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Topics: Lure

The Navy is very old and very wise.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Warfare Collection – Complete Historiographical Military Works of Rudyard Kipling: Sea Warfare, The Irish Guards in the Great War, A Fleet in Being, America’s Defenceless Coasts and many more: Including the Autobiography of the Author, France at War, The War in the Mountains, The Graves of the Fallen, The New Army in Training”, p.140, e-artnow

Topics: Wise, Book, Navy, Very Wise

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!

source: - History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

Topics: Work, Garden, Hands

What stands if freedom fall?

source: - 'For All We Have and Are' (1914) p. 2

Topics: Freedom, Fall, Ifs

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.

source: - The Five Nations (1903) "Sussex"

Topics: Love, Heart, Men

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling, “Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal”

Topics: Book, Thinking, World

Those who only know England know not England.

Topics: England, Knows

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.81, e-artnow

Topics: Hell, My Own

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection – 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India): In the Pride of His Youth, Tods' Amendment, The Other Man, Lispeth, Kidnapped, Cupid's Arrows, A Bank Fraud, Consequences, Thrown Away, Watches of the Night, The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows…”, p.44, e-artnow

Topics: Religious, People, Purpose

The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Just So Stories and the Jungle Book”

Topics: Baby, Cat, Moon, Lone

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

source: - Rudyard Kipling, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.43, GENERAL PRESS

Topics: Eye, Heart, Blood, Fathom

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!

source: - Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.742, Wordsworth Editions

Topics: Games, Play, Cost

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…”, p.596, e-artnow

Topics: Dog, Lying, Pups, I Love My Dog, Lost Dog

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

Topics: Life, Heart, Men

Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.4, Wordsworth Editions

Topics: Kissing, Age, Doe

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

source: - 'The Ladies' (1896)

Topics: Fun, Taken, Found

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches”, Elt Press

Topics: War, Two, World, World Today

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.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2011). “The Seven Seas”, p.52, House of Stratus

Topics: Splits, Detachment, Legion

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

Topics: Military, Gun, Thank God, Artillery

The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7166, e-artnow

Topics: Heart, Men, Magic

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.1558, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Topics: Pay

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

source: - Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

Topics: Kings, Humble, Sacrifice, Lest We Forget, Tumult

When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

source: - "The Female of the Species" st. 1 (1911)

Topics: Women, Pride, Scare

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

source: - "The White Man's Burden" st. 1 (1899)

Topics: Son, Men, White Man, Your Son

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.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches”, Elt Press

Topics: Men, Doe, Waste, Thrift

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.1920, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Topics: Elephants, Voice, Light, Panthers, Black Panther

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.

source: - School History "Dane-Geld (A.D. 980 - 1016)" (1911).

Topics: Agreement, Again And Again, Paid

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

source: - 1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

Topics: Weed, Men, Garden, Working Life, Better Man

Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

Topics: Heart, Men, Patriotism, American Patriot

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

source: - Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye (2002). “Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse”, Kyle Cathie Limited

Topics: Science, Self, Views, Inarticulate, Self Expression

There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.66, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Topics: People, Understanding, Twelve

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

source: - Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Songs from Books”, p.35, tredition

Topics: Heart, Sea, Fishing