734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’

I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies. Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ’twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Now, don’t be angry after you’ve been afraid. That’s the worst kind of cowardice.