Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.

speak—a thing he would never have dared to do

The Wolves are a free people," said Father Wolf. "They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer. The man's cub is ours—to kill if we choose.

know too much, young un, said Billy, and that is one

Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk—as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.

The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.

If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat these two imposters just the same ... If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you ... If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run ... you'll be a Man, my son!

El éxito comienza en la voluntad

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in.     ââ'¬â€Hindu Proverb.

the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn

The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again.

These be the sort — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan — These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings.

Down to Gehenna or up to the thrown, he Travels the fastest who travels alone.

Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!

Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. They

Through the night, through the hot night, run swiftly with me, my brothers. We will leave the lights of the village and go to the low moon.

whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last. She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. So she

And Kotick curled up his mustache (it was a beauty) and said, I am the only white seal that has ever been born on the beaches, and I am the only seal, black or white, who ever thought of looking for new islands.

Boil 'em once or twice in hot water, and they'll come as fair as chicken and ham.

Day after day, the whole day through— Wherever my road inclined— Four-Feet said, I am coming with you! And trotted along behind.

Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free—