734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Satan himself can’t save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible – and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.

Once there was The People – Terror gave it birth.

No man’s cub can run with the people of the jungle,” howled Shere Khan. “Give.

At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.

Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head.

There’s a Legion that never was ’listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.