“A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Every old ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summer-house was alive with cobras.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“All this, Man-cub, came of thy playing with the Bandar-log. True; it is true, said Mowgli sorrowfully. I am an evil man-cub,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“We of the jungle have no dealings with them. We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
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… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit of his best… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
