734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling...

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence...

Slowly - slowly. It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun

For agony and spoil Of nations beat to dust, For poisoned air and tortured soil And cold, commanded lust, And every secret woe The shuddering waters saw— Willed and fulfilled by high and low— Let them relearn the Law.