734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married. But that is a story for grown-ups.

Thou hast been with the Monkey People – the gray apes – the people without a law – the eaters of everything.

The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again. Summer passed and winter thereafter, and came and passed again.

Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free –.

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a.