Rudyard Kipling Quotes, India Quotes

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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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?'

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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

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We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

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And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!

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There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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