Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Quotes

“No fairyland is Capua—still, 'tis better
Than other lands.
St. Vincent licked the stamp and signed the letter,
And bound the bands
Of that foul, frail red tape which strangles ever
The honest energetic fool's endeavour.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads

“Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment
Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho' they come from the ends of the earth!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads

“And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads

“To things greater than all things are,   The first is Love, and the second War.   "And since we know not how War may prove,   Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads