734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When the English began to hate.