734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

I’ve a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

A man’s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

And the Eldest Magician said, ‘How wise are little children who see and are silent!

San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk – as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf’s face, and laughed.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father’s Lied.

Fit to do anything,” said the Second-in-Command enthusiastically. “But it seems to me they’re a thought too young and tender for the work in hand. It’s bitter cold up at the Front now.” “They’re sound enough,” said the Colonel. “We must take our chance of sick casualties.