The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“The Law of the Jungle NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“This was to me a far more terrible loss than the two that I had suffered before. For though, Lord help me,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. — 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 Image
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
