Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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.

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

We be of one blood, ye and I

"I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.

But different folk have different views;
I know a person small — She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!

She sends'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes — One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!

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:

My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

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

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

"There is but one task for all — One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?"

[For All We Have and Are]

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.