Quotes by Kipling, Rudyard

"Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity."

Kipling, Rudyard on delinquency
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"Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind."

Kipling, Rudyard on drugs
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"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."

Kipling, Rudyard on empire
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"Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need."

Kipling, Rudyard on empire
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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Kipling, Rudyard on excuses
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"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble."

Kipling, Rudyard on faith
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"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

Kipling, Rudyard on freedom
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"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."

Kipling, Rudyard on agreement
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"There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin."

Kipling, Rudyard on hollywood
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"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."

Kipling, Rudyard on humankind
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"Everyone is more or less mad on one point."

Kipling, Rudyard on insanity
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"I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."

Kipling, Rudyard on learning
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors."

Kipling, Rudyard on anxiety
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"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

Kipling, Rudyard on army and navy
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"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."

Kipling, Rudyard on mind
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"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."

Kipling, Rudyard on nations
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"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

Kipling, Rudyard on patience
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"All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They."

Kipling, Rudyard on people
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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!"

Kipling, Rudyard on perseverance
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"God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all."

Kipling, Rudyard on places
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"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?"

Kipling, Rudyard on art
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"Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears."

Kipling, Rudyard on praise
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"He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

Kipling, Rudyard on quotations
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"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."

Kipling, Rudyard on science
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"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

Kipling, Rudyard on sin
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"'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."

Kipling, Rudyard on style
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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

Kipling, Rudyard on unity
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"If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied."

Kipling, Rudyard on war
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Kipling, Rudyard on words
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"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies."

Kipling, Rudyard on work
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"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."

Kipling, Rudyard on children
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"The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities."

Kipling, Rudyard on christians and christianity
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"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."

Kipling, Rudyard on christmas
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"Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War. "

Kipling, Rudyard on uncategorised
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"A Nation spoke to a Nation,A Queen sent word to a Throne:Daughter am I in my mothers house,But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open,As the gates are mine to close,And I set my house in order,Said our Lady of the Snows. "

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"Oh, its Tommy this, an Tommy that, an Tommy, go away;But its Thank you, Mister Atkins, when the band begins to playThe band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,Oh, its Thank you, Mister Atkins, when the band begins to play. "

Kipling, Rudyard on uncategorised
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"There's no jealousy in the grave."

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