734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs.("The Return Of Imray")

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,For they were young, and the Thames was oldAnd this is the tale that River told:

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

All this, Man-cub, came of thy playing with the Bandar-log. True; it is true, said Mowgli sorrowfully. I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me.

I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.