Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

Money dominates everybody except those who do not want money. Rudyard Kipling in an address at McGill University in 1907

Hear! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, with eyeballs of red! (Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)

So some of him lived but most of him died. (The Vampire)

Two words breathed into the stables of a certain Cavalry Regiment will bring the men out into the streets with belts and mops and bad language; but a whisper of "Fore and Aft" will bring out this regiment with rifles.

nothin', or his edukashin which he niver got? You that think ye know things, answer me that. But I found no answer. I was wondering how long Ortheris, in the bank of the river, would hold out, and whether I should be forced to help him to desert, as I had given my word.

Low-caste I did not say, for how can that be which is not? Afterwards he amended his discourtesy, and I forgot the offence. Moreover, he is as we are, bound upon the Wheel of Things; but he does not tread the way of deliverance.' He halted at a little runlet among the fields, and considered the hoof-pitted bank.

Estaba confuso. Se miró las botas con tristeza, él que siempre había ido descalzo. ¿Quién soy yo?, se preguntó. Yo soy Kimball O'Hara, un blanco, un sahib. No, un sahib, no. Yo soy Kim. Pero, ¿quién es Kim?. Él, Kim, en medio del rugiente torbellino de la India, no era más que un ser insignificante que iba hacia el sur, ignorando lo que el destino iba a depararle.

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon      And you were a Christian slave,         ââ'¬â€W.E. Henley. His

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

If you dont get what you want, its a sign either that you did not seriously want it or that you tried to bargain over the price.

What stands if Freedom fall?Who dies if England live?

Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world.

The flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.

I could not look on Death, which being known,Men led me to him, blindfold and alone.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.