Rudyard Kipling Quotes


Rudyard Kipling

Every woman knows all about everything.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

There`s no jealousy in the grave.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again!

It`s Tommy this, and Tommy that, and `chuck `im out, the brute,` But it`s `Savior of his Country,` When the guns begin to shoot!

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors

Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves '“ but what the teachers are themselves.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.






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British children's and young adults' literature (1900–1949)
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Nobel Laureates in Literature
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Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
Jungle Book (1942)
Jungle Cubs (1996)
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Trust In Me (1987)
Victorian-era Children's Literature
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