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
oriental toil worth
You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil
english language
You just don't know how to use the English language.
children men neither nor
Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
black hump
We get the Hump - / Cameelious Hump - / The Hump that is black and blue!
good memory nor stay style talk walked women
'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
deaths died led lives mine watched
The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine
pay sins
The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
clever fool fools-and-foolishness manage needs silliest woman
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool
ancient bids blood cynic devil humor hurrying law mine mock mood saves shift
But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, h
buy love money
Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.
active behind great left paul slate weaknesses
He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we find him. / He's out on active service, wiping something off a slate - / And he's left a lot of little things behind him!
eternity
Gentlemen-Rankers out on the spree, / Damned from here to Eternity.
honest names serving six taught
I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
honest learning names serving six taught
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.