734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Your Gods and my Gods – do you or I know which are the stronger? – Native Proverb.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person’s money.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You’ll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

Hear what little Red-Eye saith: “Nag, come up and dance with death!

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget – lest we forget!

God He knows we need men more and more in the Game.

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Never ask a man his opinion of a woman’s dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.

Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.