Angela > Angela's Quotes

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

“Those who beg in silence starve in silence,”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

“Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

“Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

“Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

“Now I see, however,'—he exhaled smoke slowly—'that it is with them as with all men—in certain matters they are wise, and in others most foolish. Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

“It was like watching a car crash from the back seat. Not much he could do about it.”
― Bruno Miller, Impact