734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The.

The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar – Who follows in his train?” I.

These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?′ He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!