Rudyard Kipling Quotes

18 quotes from 15 authors

Rudyard Kipling still provokes debate, whether you’re reciting his adventurous verses or wrestling with the colonial attitudes woven through his stories. These 18 quotations—ranging from a favorite poem’s quiet cadence to a scholar’s analysis of his doctrinal influence—show how his legacy can inspire admiration, criticism, and everything in between.

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“Oft did I weary of wrestling with thee. Carved an unknown galley slave into an oar. And Rudyard Kipling into his desk.”

David Markson

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I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'

Dwane Casey

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“Twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain. —RUDYARD KIPLING”

Marc Cameron

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“Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.”

Jorge Luis Borges

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“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world…

Rudyard Kipling

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My wife and I have this discussion all the time. Her primal influences are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald. Mine…

Chris Claremont

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Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological…

Liz Williams

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A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace…

Rudyard Kipling

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One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks…

Tony Snow

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“What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through…

Stanley Baldwin

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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel…

Michael Ende

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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have…

Debbie Macomber

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Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be…

Halford Luccock

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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing…

Roald Dahl

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“A poem by Rudyard Kipling says derisively of people who despise soldiers and police that they make ‘mock o’ uniforms that guard…

Richard A. Posner

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“wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real…

G.K. Chesterton

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“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the…

Roald Dahl

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“The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill…

Rudyard Kipling

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