Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.
I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
The masterless man. . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
Believe the best of everybody.
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
As the dawn comes up like thunder.
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
(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.
Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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.
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!