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
common crowds kings lose nor talk walk
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
blaming head losing theirs
If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
allah created english mad mankind
For Allah created the English mad - the maddest of all mankind!
begin guns
It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
children men neither nor
Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
people shadow ends
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
san-francisco bay-area drawbacks
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
travel home men
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
triumph disaster
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
writing history stories
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
insulting dialect language
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
nice thinking sea
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!
strong children good-luck
Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.
dream masters ifs
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.