And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. Rudyard Kipling
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. Rudyard Kipling
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. Rudyard Kipling
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. Rudyard Kipling
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all. Rudyard Kipling
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Rudyard Kipling
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. Rudyard Kipling
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! Rudyard Kipling
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' Rudyard Kipling
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. Rudyard Kipling
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Rudyard Kipling
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet. Rudyard Kipling
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities. Rudyard Kipling
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet! Rudyard Kipling
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling
