“It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended); further, that they were malignant in their dispositions, untrustworthy in their characters, pernicious and revolutionary in their influences, abandoned to the devils of wilfulness, pride, and a most intolerable conceit. Ninthly, and lastly, they were to have a care and to be very careful.”
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Rudyard Kipling“All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.”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“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