Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

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!

Holden found one helpless little hand that closed feebly on his finger. And the clutch ran through his body till it settled about his heart. Till then his sole thought had been for Ameera. He began to realise that there was some one else in the world,...

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

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

He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World

We are dead to love and honor/We are lost to hope and truth/We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung/And the measure of our horror is the measure of our youth/God help us for we knew the worst too young!

A liar only lies when he hopes to be believed.

Only the keeper sees that,where the ring-dove broods and the badgers roll at ease, there was once a road through the woods

Slowly - slowly. It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun

Then Kotick roared to the seals: I've done my best for you these five seasons past. I've found you the island where you'll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won't believe. I'm going to teach you now. Look out for yourselves!

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Nosotros no nos hemos separado por completo, pero aún no ha llegado el momento de que volvamos juntos a la carretera. Ahora está adquiriendo conocimientos en otro lugar. No tenemos más remedio que esperar.

Respect the aged! It was a thick voice—a muddy voice that would have made you shudder—a voice like something soft breaking in two.

Ere the moon has climbed the mountain, ere the rocks are ribbed with light

What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that`s your nature, but don`t lend it to your neighbors.

Mowgli will drive Mowgli. Go back to thy people. Go to man. -Akela

Thou hast been with the Monkey People—the gray apes—the people without a law—the eaters of everything.

Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling...

For the world is wondrous large, Seven seas from marge to marge, And it holds a vast of various kinds of man. And the wildest dreams of Kew Are the facts of Khatmandu, And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban. MORAL: Judge not that ye be not judged.