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
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.
blow cut god left plains rifle roll soldier women wounded
When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your God like a soldier
women heart home
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
women pride scare
When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
women land maidens
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
women heart sight
Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.
women intuition absolute-certainty
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
women science males
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
glasgow heard lie paid prayed soul starve
Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.
learn yellow
There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / But the things you will learn from the Yellow and Brown, / They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!
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.
began english man preached spoke taught
It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When the English began to hate.
compliments ears hope praise proper reaching sister
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears