Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 December 1865
CityMumbai, India
pay
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
horse war puff
And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.
stories world fiction
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
triumph disaster
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
dream masters ifs
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.
pay abundance peter
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'
heart men magic
The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
women pride scare
When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
kissing age doe
Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
sea tree littles
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
wise book navy
The Navy is very old and very wise.
simple giving naked
Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
heart humble sacrifice
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
heart race age
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.