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
play dawn thunder
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
dog horse cat
Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him
country men world
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
two want-something wellness
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
book reading men
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
pay
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
funny death suicide
I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
god host forget
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!
heart race age
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
england should knows
And what should they know of England who only England know?
anomalies charming shirts
Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.
wise strong lying
No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
wise book navy
The Navy is very old and very wise.
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.