Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Doors Quotes, Agony Quotes

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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

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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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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.

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No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

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Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.

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Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

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There's no jealousy in the grave.

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

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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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