Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.

When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,Lie down till the leaders have spoken—it may be fair words shall prevail.

He went back through the wet wild woods, waving his wild tail, and walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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.

don't aspire to be the best on the team, but aspire to be the best for the team.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

Every woman knows all about everything.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

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.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.

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.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.