Rudyard Kipling quotes - page 4

I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine. (Rudyard Kipling)

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

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Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

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Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed Bucket shop|bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.

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... it's always best to tell the truth.

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For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

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Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

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I never made a mistake in my life at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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For all we have and are, For all our childrens fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate.

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It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Chuck him out, the brute But it's Savior of 'is country when the guns begin to shoot.

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They 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. (Rudyard Kipling)

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

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TWENTY 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:.

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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

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How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can?

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These 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.

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They 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?

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In the flush of the hot June prime, O'ersleek flood-tides afire, I hear him hurry the chime To the bidding of checked Desire; Till the sweated ringers tire And the wild bob-majors die. Could I wait for my turn in the godly choir? (Shoal! 'Ware shoal!) Not I!

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‘There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill; But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.

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Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be,
And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me! (Rudyard Kipling)

We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead.

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For to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world so wide- It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried!

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I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts, An' four o' the lot was prime. One was an 'arf-caste widow, One was a woman at Prome, One was the wife of a jemadar-sais, An' one is a girl at 'ome.

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For you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you! So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do-hoo! hoo! Jest send in your Chief an' surrender it's worse if you fights or you runs: You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!

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