“All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!”
Rudyard Kipling“Anything from Kipling”
Rudyard Kipling“Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.”
Jorge Luis Borges“Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.”
Rudyard Kipling“Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!”
Rudyard Kipling“Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!”
Rudyard Kipling“All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.”
Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
Rudyard Kipling“It's clever, but is it Art?”
Rudyard Kipling“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?'”
Rudyard Kipling“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
Rudyard Kipling