734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- ‘Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.’

Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

No doubt but ye are the People – absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward.

Meddling with another man’s folly is always thankless work.

Chuchundra is a broken-hearted little beast. He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room. But he never gets there.

Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head!

Now whither does THIS trail lead?” Kaa’s voice was gentler. “Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open.