Rudyard Kipling Quotes - Page 10

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.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

I keep six honest serving men.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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

No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

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.

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!

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

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!

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

Every woman knows all about everything.