Rudyard Kipling Quotes

And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!

Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases They fell because their peoples were not fit.

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.