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“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

“When the flicker of London's sun falls faint on the club-room's green and gold,
The sons of Adam sit them down and scratch with their pens in the mold—
They scratch with their pens in the mold of their graves, and the ink and the anguish start
When the Devil mutters behind the leaves: "It's pretty, but is it art?”
― Rudyard Kipling

“A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories

“LETTING IN THE JUNGLE Veil them, cover them, wall them round—
Blossom, and creeper, and weed—
Let us forget the sight and the sound,
The smell and the touch of the breed!
Fat black ash by the altar-stone,
Here is the white-foot rain,
And the does bring forth in the fields unsown,
And none shall affright them again;
And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown
And none shall inhabit again!
You will remember that after Mowgli had pinned Shere Khan's hide to the Council Rock, he told as many as were left of the Seeonee Pack that henceforward he would hunt in the Jungle alone; and the four children of Mother and Father Wolf said that they would hunt with him. But it is not easy to change one's life all in a minute—particularly in the Jungle. The first thing Mowgli did, when the disorderly Pack had slunk off, was to go to the home-cave, and sleep for a day and a night.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book

“I know just enough to be uncomfortable, and not enough to go on in spite of it.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Nuž, pamatuj, zde platí zákony džungle a pražádné jiné. Živ bude, kdo ctí je, kdo nezachovává je, ten bídně zhyne. Jak liána pevně lpí na stromě, odtrhnout nedá se ani – Tak chrání vlk smečku a v odměnu za to zas smečka ho chrání.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books

“Hemos venido a verle para saber de este país, para leer un libro sobre él y para que nos enseñe mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos enseñe libros".”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling [Dover Thrift Editions]

“As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back-- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Works of Rudyard Kipling - One Volume Edition

“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

“Vlci jsou svobodný lid,“ řekl táta Vlk. „Dávají si poroučet jenom od náčelníka smečky, ne od nějakého pruhovaného zabíječe dobytka. Člověčí mládě je naše – zabijeme je sami, až se nám zlíbí.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books

“If you want something and don' get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Each dog barks in his own yard! We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs. The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves!”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“HUNTING-SONG OF THE SEEONEE PACK As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled Once, twice, and again! And a doe leaped up—and a doe leaped up From the pond in the wood where the wild deer sup. This I, scouting alone, beheld, Once, twice, and again! As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled Once, twice, and again! And a wolf stole back—and a wolf stole back To carry the word to the waiting Pack; And we sought and we found and we bayed on his track Once, twice, and again! As the dawn was breaking the Wolf pack yelled Once, twice, and again! Feet in the jungle that leave no mark! Eyes that can see in the dark—the dark! Tongue—give tongue to it! Hark! O Hark! Once, twice, and again!”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“humming”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“The hot wine had filled him.
Under the stars he mocked me—therefore I killed him!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Songs from Books

“Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Se aprende más de un erudito apasionado que de un montón de ganapanes de ardua brillantez.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling: Something of Myself

“It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Tabaqui, more than any one else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of any one, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. Even the tiger hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“निश्चित”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book by RUDYARD KIPLING: Classic Jungle Adventures of Mowgli and Friends

“Las palabras constituyen la droga más potente que haya inventado la humanidad.”
― RUDYARD KIPLING

“Oh, long had we paltered With bridle and girth Ere those horses were haltered That gave us the Earth— Ere the Flame and the Fountain, The Spark and the Wheel, Sank Ocean and Mountain Alike ’neath our keel. But the Wind in her blowing, The bird on the wind, Made naught”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

“Ah! – esclamò il Gatto ascoltando. – Questa Donna è molto saggia; ma non saggia come me.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“The Fore and Aft had enjoyed unbroken peace for five days, and were beginning, in spite of dysentery, to recover their nerve. But they were not happy, for they did not know the work in hand, and had they known, would not have known how to do it. Throughout those five days in which old soldiers might have taught them the craft of the game, they discussed together their misadventures in the past — how such an one was alive at dawn and dead ere the dusk,”
― Rudyard Kipling, The complete works of Rudyard Kipling

“e disse ben poco altresì di quella mostruosa gibbosità, intrisa di sangue, che si chiama il Sabotino, e che fu presa, perduta e ripresa, nel modo più glorioso, durante i primi giorni della guerra; mentre ora giaceva lì, sotto di noi, apparentemente calma, come un pascolo montano”
― Rudyard Kipling, La guerra nelle montagne: Impressioni dal fronte italiano

“India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why;”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Works PergamonMedia

“But say, India’s half the size of the United States. Which State are you going to?”
― Rudyard Kipling, The complete works of Rudyard Kipling