Rudyard Kipling citations

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“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”

“My heart is so tired”

“Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.”

“War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.”

“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”

“We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week…
The bottom is out of the Universe.”

“Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.”

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”

“All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
As only a sort of They!”

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

“When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.”

“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”

“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”

“I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.”

“And the first rude sketch that the world has seen
was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art?”

“TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told:”

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.”

“A Time For Prayer

"In times of war and not before,
God and the soldier we adore.
But in times of peace and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."

-Rudyard Kipling”

“I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.”

“How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can?”

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

“We be of one blood, ye and I.”