"If England was what England seems, And not……" — Rudyard Kipling
"If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!"
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223 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling has 223 quotes on this site.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all…
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon…
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps…
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with…
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by…
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More Brass Quotes
This quote is filed under Brass Quotes,
one of 109 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the…
— George Clooney
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some…
— Mark Twain
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Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains…
— Ray Liotta
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded…
— Betty Smith
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At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them…
— John Cotton
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
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