Rudyard Kipling Quotes

We and They, Stanza 1.

We be of one blood, ye and I.

They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam!

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

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.

For 'im that doth not work must surely die;
But that's no reason man should labour all
'Is life on one same shift—life's none so long.

Two things greater than all things are,
The first is Love, and the second War.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

She read a little of it. I give her review verbatim:—"Oh, your book? It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it."

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

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
This is the way of the Monkey-kind!

'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse—soldier an' sailor too.

[W]e know nothing about their life which touches so intimately the White on the one hand and the Black on the other.... Wanted, therefore, a writer from among the Eurasians, who shall write so that men shall be pleased to read a story of Eurasian life; then outsiders will be interested in the People of India, and will admit that the race has possibilities.

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:

Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need.