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Rudyard Kipling: Citations en anglais

“When you've shouted "Rule Brittania": when you've sung "God Save the Queen,"
When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth,
Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine
For a gentleman in khaki headed South?”

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The Absent-Minded Beggar (1899)

“If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine.”

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Mother o' Mine http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p3/motheromine.html (1891). Other works

“They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam!”

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The Native-Born, Stanza 2 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“San Francisco is a mad city—inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”

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American Notes— At the Golden Gate http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/AmericanNotes/goldengate.html (1891). Other works

“And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!”

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L'Envoi, Stanza 3 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

The Mary Gloster.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“The toad beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where each tooth point goes;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.”

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Pagett M.P, prelude
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

“For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.”

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Tommy, Stanza 5.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“And what did ye look they should compass?
Warcraft learned in a breath,
Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view of Death?
So? And ye train your horses and the dogs ye feed and prize?
How are the beasts more worthy than the souls, your sacrifice?
But ye said, “Their valour shall show them”; but ye said, “The end is close.”
And ye sent them comfits and pictures to help them harry your foes:
And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted your iron pride,
Ere—ye fawned on the Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ride!
Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls
With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.”

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The Islanders http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/islanders.html, l. 22-31 (1902). Other works

“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.”

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Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown, ch. 8 (1937).
Other works

“It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world,
Which you can read and care for just so long,
But presently you feel that you will die
Unless you get the page you're readin' done,
An' turn another—likely not so good;
But what you're after is to turn 'em all.”

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Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, Stanza 6.
The Seven Seas (1896)

““Stand up, stand up now, Tomlinson, and answer loud and high
“The good that ye did for the sake of men or ever ye came to die—
“The good that ye did for the sake of men in little earth so lone!”
And the naked soul of Tomlinson grew white as a rain-washed bone.”

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Tomlinson, l. 7-10 (1891).
Other works

“An' I learned about women from 'er.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

The Ladies, ending line to Stanzas III, IV, and V.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time.”

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The Ladies, Stanza I.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church of England Providence only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen.”

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The Mark of the Beast.
Life's Handicap (1891)

“It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Plain Tales from the Hills

Lispeth.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“Two things greater than all things are,
The first is Love, and the second War.”

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The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 9
Other works

“They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,
An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin.”

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

““What are the bugles blowin' for?” said Files-on-Parade.
“To turn you out, to turn you out”, the Colour-Sergeant said.”

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

“For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!”

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For All We Have and Are http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/forall.html, Stanza 1 (1914). Other works

“We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It's clever, but is it Art?””

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The Conundrum of the Workshops, Stanza 6.
Other works

“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!”

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Young British Soldier, Stanza 13.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“She read a little of it. I give her review verbatim: "Oh, your book? It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it."”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Plain Tales from the Hills

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

“For ‘im that doth not work must surely die;
But that's no reason man should labour all
‘Is life on one same shift—life's none so long.”

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Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, Stanza 4 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“She has no strong white arms to fold you,
But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you—
Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.”

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Harp Song of the Dane Women http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_harp.htm, Stanza 3 (1906). Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

“If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.”

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Common Form
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)

“There's a Legion that never was 'listed,
That carries no colours or crest,
But, split in a thousand detachments,
Is breaking the road for the rest.”

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The Lost Legion, Stanza 1 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“When the cabin port-holes are dark and green
Because of the seas outside;
When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between)
And the steward falls into the soup-tureen,
And the trunks begin to slide;
When Nursey lies on the floor in a heap,
And Mummy tells you to let her sleep,
And you aren't waked or washed or dressed,
Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed)
You're ‘Fifty North and Forty West!”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Just So Stories

How the Whale Got His Throat.
Just So Stories (1902)

“And oft-times cometh our wise Lord God, master of every trade,
And tells them tales of His daily toil, of Edens newly made;
And they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.”

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Dedication, Stanza 5.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Take of English earth as much
As either hand may rightly clutch.
In the taking of it breathe
Prayer for all who lie beneath.”

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Epitaphs of the War, Stanza 1. Rewards and Fairies http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/RewardsFaries/index.html (1910)