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
learn yellow
There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / But the things you will learn from the Yellow and Brown, / They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!
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!