734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

I've taken my fun where I've found it. / An' now I must pay for my fun, / For the more you 'ave known o' the others / The less you will settle to one.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven’t had any tea for a week… The bottom is out of the Universe.

A fool there was and he made his prayer / (Even as you and I!) / To a rag and a bone and hank of hair / (We called her the woman who did not care) / But the fool he called her his lady fair— / (Even as you and I!)

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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

I have a dream - a dreadful dream -A dream that is never done.I watch a man go out of his mind, and he is My Mother's Son. And no one knows when he'll get well So, there he'll have to be, and, 'spite of the beard in the looking-glass, I know that man is me!

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself.'

If you love me as I love you, / What knife can cut our love in two?

The toad beneath the harrow knows exactly where each tooth-point goes; tThe butterfly upon the road preaches contentment to that toad.