Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence

camel here is frightened by bad dreams in the

But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.

Every old ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summer-house was alive with cobras.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.

All this, Man-cub, came of thy playing with the Bandar-log. True; it is true, said Mowgli sorrowfully. I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me.

mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying, Here's a dead mongoose.

Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game.

The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again. Summer passed and winter thereafter, and came and passed again.

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.

Each dog barks in his own yard!

Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.

the Bandar-log, fear Kaa the Rock Snake. He can climb as well as they can. He steals the young monkeys in the night. The whisper of his name makes their wicked tails cold. Let us go to Kaa. What

Waingunga, the Man Pack have

And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three.

They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill -- aye, and colder, too, for 'twill never change.

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out.

So this is the manling," said Kaa. "Very soft is his skin, and he is not unlike the Bandar-log. Have a care, Manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

This talk went in at one ear and out at the other, for a boy who spends his life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo's words came true, and Mowgli saw all the Jungle working under the Law.

Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.

Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. (Dayspring Mishandled)

Quelle ronde debbono eseguirsi con qualunque tempo e sotto qualunque luce si possano avere lassù all'altezza di undicimila piedi, con la Morte per compagna sotto ogni piede. Rocce lucenti di ghiaccio, dove una scarpa dai chiodi logorati scivola una volta ed una volta sola.