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
Rudyard Kipling quotes about
abstain improving manners marriage pleasant terrible wise
Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of marriage
allah created english mad mankind
For Allah created the English mad - the maddest of all mankind!
man
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
eating egg kissed kisses-and-kissing man moustache wax
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.
beneath butterfly contentment exactly knows preaches road toad
The toad beneath the harrow knows / Exactly where each tooth-point goes; / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad.
ancient member profession
A member of the most ancient profession in the world.
crown gold hairy widow
Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
rio roll
And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!
honour mine
And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
pull trail
Pull out, pull out on the Long Trail - the trail that is always new!
bridge clear drive land law obedience road swift
Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.
blaming head losing theirs
If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
alike cat places walks
He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
england lights ships watch
The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!