734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.

Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

Payday came and with it beer

The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Each in stall with his neighbors, But man with goad and whip, Breaks up their fellowship, Shouts in their silky ears Filling their soul with fears. When he has plowed the land, He says: "they understand." But the beasts in stall together, Freed from the yoke and tether, Say as the torn flank smoke: "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."