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
wife mistress literature
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
religious people purpose
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
desire fairy-tale tales
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
self-harm ears way
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
clever mistake men
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
men waste fool
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
dream
Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
mother memories appeals
Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
twilight night noise
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
people disturbed jungle
None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
british-soldiers soldier british
Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
fire pieces doe
A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
men wells ifs
Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
men deeds term
Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.