734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

What stands if freedom fall?

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.