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“We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Tommy, Stanza 4.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

Men , Painting

“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes,
It will vanish and the stars will shine again,
Because, for all our power and weight and size,
We are nothing more than children of your brain!”

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The Secret of the Machines, Stanza 8.
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Children , Star

“God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Belovèd over all.”

Rudyard Kipling

Sussex http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/sussex.html, Stanza 1 (1902).
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Love , Men , God , Heart

“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Story of the Gadsbys

The Story of the Gadsbys (1888), "Poor Dear Mamma".
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Kiss

“By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:
“Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!””

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Mandalay, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

Girl , Thinking , Tree , Sea

“E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive
An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Fuzzy-Wuzzy.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

Dead

“Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need.”

Rudyard Kipling The White Man's Burden

The White Man's Burden, Stanza 1 (1899).
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“Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."”

Rudyard Kipling

The Naulahka http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/Naulahka/index.html, ch. 5 (1892).
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Health , Smile , Fools , Fight

“We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We're little black sheep who've gone astray,
Baa—aa—aa!
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Gentlemen-Rankers, refrain
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

God , Way

“… it's always best to tell the truth.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Gardener (1925) .
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Truth

“Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.”

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Letter to Sidney Colvin (1928).
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Winter

“Oh the road to Mandalay
Where the flyin'-fishes play
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer
China 'crost the Bay!”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Mandalay.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

Fish

“He did his best to interest the girl in himself—that is to say, his work—and she, after the manner of women, did her best to appear interested in, what behind his back, she called "Mr. Wressley's Wajahs"; for she lisped very prettily. She did not understand one little thing about them, but she acted as if she did. Men have married on that sort of error before now.”

Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills

Wressley of the Foreign Office.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

Women , Men , Error , Girl

“Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.”

Rudyard Kipling

A Doctor's Work, an address at Middlesex Hospital (October 1908).
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Rudyard Kipling quote: “Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”

“Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Light That Failed http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TheLightThatFailed/index.html, ch. 11 (1890-1891).
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Thinking

“Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Mandalay, Stanza 6.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“That's the secret. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walk down a street.”

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Mrs. Bathurst http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TrafficsDiscoveries/bathurst.html (1904).
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Secret , Beauty , Memory

“Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro—
And what should they know of England who only England know?”

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The English Flag, Stanza 1 (1891).
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World

“Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.”

Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills

Watches of the Night.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

People

“I've just read that I'm dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.”

Rudyard Kipling

Letter to a magazine that had mistakenly published the announcement of his death.
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Reading , Dead , Forgetting