734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

Why not follow the Way thyself, and so accompany the boy?"Mahbub stared stupefied at the magnificent insolence of the demand, which across the Border he would have paid with more than a blow. Then the humor of it touched his worldly soul."Softly -- softly -- one foot at a time, as the lame gelding went over the Umballa jumps. I may come to Paradise later -- I have workings that way -- great motions -- and I owe them to thy simplicity.

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)