734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay!).

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

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

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.