734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

There’s no jealousy in the grave.

You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing ‘Oh how wonderful’ and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

We be of one blood, ye and I.

Being kissed by a man who didn’t wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order – never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.

What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride? Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair to die!