734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Have it jest as you've a mind to, but I've proved it time on time, / If you want to change her nature you have got to give her lime.

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.