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
bargain either price seriously sign tried
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price
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.
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.
salt
Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?
judy lady sisters
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady / Are sisters under their skins!
draw god sees separate shall
And, each in his separate star, / Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are!