734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

I've taken my fun where I've found it / An' now I must pay for my fun.

The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

It's clever, but is it Art?

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.