Quotes from book
Barrack-Room Ballads

The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet.

“For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.”
The Ladies, Stanza VIII.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive
An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.”
Fuzzy-Wuzzy.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.”
The Mary Gloster.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“An' I learned about women from 'er.”
The Ladies, ending line to Stanzas III, IV, and V.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)