Rudyard Kipling is one of the few famous authors of the English language to have originated from India. His works for children, including The Jungle Book, its sequel Second Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, and Captains Courageous, have earned him global recognition.
Here are the best Rudyard Kipling quotes
It’s clever, but is it art?
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
Rudyard Kipling
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
But he could n’t lie if you paid him and he’d starve before he stole.
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‘E’s all’ot sand an’ ginger when alive, An”e’s generally shammin’ when’e’s dead.
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For to admire and for to see, For to be’old this world so wide – It never done no good to me, But I can’t drop it if I tried.
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It’s Tommy this an’ Tommy that an’ “Chuck’im out, the brute,” But it’s “Savior of’is country,” when the guns begin to shoot.
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Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ar’n’t no Ten Commandments an’ a man can raise a thirst.
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The tumult and the shouting dies – The Captains and the Kings depart – Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
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A fool there was and he made his prayer, (Even as you and I), To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair.
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