Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhen 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 god like a soldier.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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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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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Delight in the little things.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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