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Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Rudyard Kipling quotes

English Writer, Poet December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936

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(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. Rudyard Kipling
And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.' They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs. 'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye. 'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible. Rudyard Kipling
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. Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "They are fools who kiss and tell'--Wisely has the poet sung...."
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. Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own..."
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your..."
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. Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen..."
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "My heart is so tired"
My heart is so tired Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. Rudyard Kipling
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. Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "What is a woman that you forsake her. And the hearth fire and..."
What is a woman that you forsake her. And the hearth fire and the home acre. To go with that old grey widow-maker? Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim."
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim. Rudyard Kipling
He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot. Rudyard Kipling
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman inher blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man sheadores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, orinterlard her speech with his pet oaths. Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling

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