Top 400 Rudyard Kipling Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “No doubt but ye are the People – absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!”

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152. “He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World.”

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153. “When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.”

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154. “The Navy is very old and very wise.”

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155. “God help us for we knew the worst too young.”

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156. “A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.”

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157. “Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.”

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158. “Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.”

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159. “Hunting Verse – “Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all.”

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160. “It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.”

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161. “As the dawn comes up like thunder.”

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162. “The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar – Who follows in his train?” I.”

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163. “Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.”

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164. “Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.”

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165. “All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.”

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166. “All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.”

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167. “Those who only know England know not England.”

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168. “Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.”

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169. “Daughter am I in my mother’s house, but mistress in my own.”

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170. “This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?′ He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.”

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171. “The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.”

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172. “It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.”

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173. “I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.”

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174. “For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.”

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175. “It’s clever, but is it Art?”

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176. “All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.”

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177. “Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.”

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178. “I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.”

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179. “Your Gods and my Gods – do you or I know which are the stronger? – Native Proverb.”

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180. “The Wolves are a free people,” said Father Wolf. “They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer. The man’s cub is ours – to kill if we choose.”

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181. “TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew – Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told:.”

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182. “Chuchundra is a broken-hearted little beast. He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room. But he never gets there.”

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183. “India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake and more excited than anyone, chewing on a twig that he would presently use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from all the customs of the country he knew and loved.”

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184. “Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”

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185. “Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.”

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186. “The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.”

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187. “Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.”

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188. “Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.”

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189. “When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.”

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190. “One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a.”

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191. “What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride? Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair to die!”

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192. “Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The.”

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193. “And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows...”

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194. “At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.”

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195. “Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.”

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196. “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”

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197. “Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.”

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198. “Now Rann the Kite brings home the night.”

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199. “It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- ‘Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.’”

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200. “It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.”

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