Quotes About Rudyard Kipling

Soon both O'Dwyer and Dyer were obliged to return to Britain, but they remained unrepentant, and the honours they received from supporters at home—including Rudyard Kipling, a major contributor to a purse presented to Dyer—added to Indian revulsion.

To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned," "Gentlemen-Rankers," Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'

Guy Molony, who ran away from New Orleans at sixteen to fight in the Boer War. It was the era of romantic soldiering, when boys heeded the call of Rudyard Kipling ("Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, / Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst," he wrote in "Mandalay").

HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. "Having seen it," Rudyard Kipling wrote, "I desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake and more excited than anyone, chewing on a twig that he would presently use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from all the customs of the country he knew and loved.

The meaning of my star is war.

Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly.

Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro— And what should they know of England who only England know? The English Flag, Stanza 1 (1891)

Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best. Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot.

This, O my Best Beloved is a story – a new and wonderful story – a story quite different from the other stories

and if somehow my conduct ain't all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints.. From 'Tommy

Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head.

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon

Burmese babies—fat, little, brown little divils, as

Lend me thy coat, Shere Khan. Lend me thy gay striped coat that I may go to the Council Rock.

With the knife—with the knife that men use—with the knife of the hunter, I will stoop down for my gift.

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

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE Just to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo always recited them in a sort of sing-song) a few of the laws that apply to the wolves. There are, of course, hundreds and hundreds more, but these will do for specimens of the simpler rulings.

'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at WindsorWith a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?