Rudyard Kipling
- Country : India
- Profession :English Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Poet, And Journalist.
- DOB: 1865-12-30
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a renowned British author and poet. Born in Bombay, India, he spent his early years there, which later influenced much of his work. Kipling’s writing, known for its vivid storytelling, includes classics like “The Jungle Book,” “Kim,” and “The Man Who Would Be King.” He became the first English-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Kipling’s writings often explored themes of imperialism, adventure, and the complexities of human nature. His work continues to captivate readers worldwide and has had a profound influence on literature and popular culture, particularly in the field of children’s literature.
Cites and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye Which daily die; But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spend ad unconsidered Earth, The cities will rise again
Author: Rudyard KiplingYe’ve a furtive look in your eye – a furtive, sneakin’, poachin’ look in your eye, that ‘ud ruin the reputation of an archangel!
Author: Rudyard KiplingBody and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.
Author: Rudyard KiplingWhen a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.
Author: Rudyard KiplingToo much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink
Author: Rudyard KiplingThe reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,
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Author: Rudyard KiplingIf a man can hear the truth he’s spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools……….
Author: Rudyard KiplingHolden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, — which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.
Author: Rudyard KiplingIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And hold on when there’s nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!
Author: Rudyard KiplingWhatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
Author: Rudyard KiplingWhat is this,” said the leopard,”that is so ‘sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?
Author: Rudyard KiplingFiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Author: Rudyard KiplingIf you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
Author: Rudyard KiplingIf you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it…
Author: Rudyard KiplingIf you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards
Author: Rudyard KiplingIt takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilised Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
Author: Rudyard KiplingSo Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married. But that is a story for grown-ups.
Author: Rudyard KiplingAt twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
Author: Rudyard KiplingOne can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
Author: Rudyard KiplingHear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThe motto of all the mongoose family is, “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
Author: Rudyard KiplingOne man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it’s worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. —The Thousandth Man
Author: Rudyard KiplingAs surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Author: Rudyard KiplingWhen the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThe tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.
Author: Rudyard KiplingO it’s Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy ‘ow’s your soul/But it’s thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
Author: Rudyard KiplingSomething I owe to the soil that grew— More to the life that fed— But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head.
Author: Rudyard KiplingIt is not a good fancy,’ said the llama. ‘What profit to kill men?’ Very little – as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThey are fools who kiss and tell’– Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he’ll only hold his tongue.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThey will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?
Author: Rudyard KiplingAll we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago’
Author: Rudyard KiplingA thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThese are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
Author: Rudyard KiplingTWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew – Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
Author: Rudyard KiplingYet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.
Author: Rudyard KiplingHow can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
Author: Rudyard KiplingThere is but one task for all — One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?” [For All We Have and Are]
Author: Rudyard KiplingA Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.
Author: Rudyard KiplingIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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Author: Rudyard KiplingIf you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies. Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
Author: Rudyard KiplingAnd the first rude sketch that the world has seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, “It’s pretty, but is it art?
Author: Rudyard KiplingAsia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Author: Rudyard KiplingOf all said words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these it might have been.
Author: Rudyard KiplingNow, don’t be angry after you’ve been afraid. That’s the worst kind of cowardice.
Author: Rudyard KiplingWe had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven’t had any tea for a week… The bottom is out of the Universe.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThis is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Author: Rudyard KiplingGardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.
Author: Rudyard KiplingWar is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
Author: Rudyard KiplingThe world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
Author: Rudyard KiplingI am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Author: Rudyard KiplingI keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Author: Rudyard KiplingA man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
Author: Rudyard KiplingFor the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Author: Rudyard KiplingWe’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
Author: Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Author: Rudyard KiplingI never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.
Author: Rudyard Kipling