Rudyard Kipling Quotes

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Take your friend away. He has done with Hanuman, but Hanuman has not done with him.

Take of English earth as much
As either hand may rightly clutch.
In the taking of it breathe
Prayer for all who lie beneath.

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.

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!

A scrimmage in a Border Station—
A canter down some dark defile—
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail—
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.

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."

An' I learned about women from 'er.

We be of one blood, ye and I.

Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed Bucket shop|bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;
But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea
In the heel of the North-East Trade.

We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It's clever, but is it Art?”