734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

For Allah created the English mad - the maddest of all mankind!

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows...

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.