1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse
'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
Rudyard Kipling – [Style]
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling – [Mind]
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling – [Nations]
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling – [Certainty]
All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling – [People]
All we have of freedom — all we use or know — this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling – [Freedom]
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
Rudyard Kipling – [Agreement]
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''
Rudyard Kipling – [Empire]
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
Rudyard Kipling – [Arts and Artists]
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling – [Anxiety]
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
Rudyard Kipling – [Humankind]
Call a truce, then, to our labors — let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
Rudyard Kipling – [Christmas]
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Rudyard Kipling – [Insanity]
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling – [Sin]
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling – [Unity]
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions — largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
Rudyard Kipling – [Science and Scientists]
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Rudyard Kipling – [Delinquency]
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.
Rudyard Kipling – [Places]
He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling – [Quotations]
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling – [Patience]