Quote

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

Rudyard Kipling

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Bombay
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
R. Kipling
Kipling
Shoot
Brute
Gun
Chuck
Begins
Saviour
Sleep
Brutes
Making
Mock
History
Uniforms
Country
Guard
Guns
Tommy

More quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Image
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
Rudyard Kipling
Image
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
Rudyard Kipling
Image
All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
Rudyard Kipling
Image
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
Rudyard Kipling