734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call ’civilization.

One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a.

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this – when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.

Ay, roar well,” said Bagheera, under his whiskers, “for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.