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Rudyard Kipling Quotes

«You just don't know how to use the English language.»
«Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?»
Author: Rudyard Kipling | Keywords: jest
«It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.»
«Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.»
«Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.»
«Ye thought? Ye are not paid to think.»
«Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.»
«[Fifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or someone like Maya Angelou reading a poem at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration - to appreciate poetry. He instantly knew his favorite poem:] If ... If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.»
«Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures and balances? Which is his season For laughter, forbearance or bloodshed, and what devils move him When he arises to smite us? I do not love him»
«We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints»