734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

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

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.