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Rudyard Kipling
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“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 (1865–1936) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Explorer, Stanza 2 (1903).
“Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again! There's no discharge in the war!”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boots, Stanza 1 (1903).
“That's the secret. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walk down a street.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mrs. Bathurst (1904).
“I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all; to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: King George V's Christmas broadcast, 1932
“... scandals are only increased by hushing them up.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Gardener (1925) .
“... it's always best to tell the truth.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Gardener (1925) .
“Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fiction", speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80
“Our Indian Empire must be treated to a few lines by itself. It is not a Colony but a ‘Dependency of the Crown’. The extension of our rule over the whole Indian peninsula was made possible, first by the exclusion of any other European power (when we had once beaten off the French there), and secondly by the fact that the weaker states and princes continually called in our help against the stronger. From our three starting-points of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, we have gradually swallowed the whole country; though some states keep their native princes, these are all sworn dependants of King George as ‘Emperor of India’, just as in feudal times a great feudal earl was a sworn subject of his King. Our rule has been infinitely to the good of all the three hundred millions of the different races who inhabit that richly peopled land.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A School History of England, written with C. R. L. Fletcher, London, Clarendon Press, 1911. Also quoted in Diarmaid Ferriter, A Nation And Not A Rabble, London, Profile Books, 2015.
“[16 October 18951: it is my fortune to have been born and to a large extent brought up among those whom white men call `heathen'; and while I recognise the paramount duty of every white man to follow the teachings of his creed and conscience as `a debtor to do the whole law,' it seems to me cruel that white men, whose governments are armed with the most murderous weapons known to science, should amaze and confound their fellow creatures with a doctrine of salvation imperfectly understood by themselves and a code of ethics foreign to the climate and instincts of those races whose most cherished customs they outrage and whose gods they insult.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And what did ye look they should compass? Warcraft learned in a breath, Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view of Death? So? And ye train your horses and the dogs ye feed and prize? How are the beasts more worthy than the souls, your sacrifice? But ye said, “Their valour shall show them”; but ye said, “The end is close.” And ye sent them comfits and pictures to help them harry your foes: And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted your iron pride, Ere—ye fawned on the Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ride! Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Islanders, l. 22-31 (1902).