What should they know of England who only England know?
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.
His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council—Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he...
I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not.
An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrep...
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue
Open the old cigar-box .....let me consider anew..... Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you? A million surplus Maggies are willing 'o bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but...
Now Rann the Kite brings home the nightThat Mang the Bat sets free—The herds are shut in byre and hutFor loosed till dawn are we.This is the hour of pride and power,Talon and tush and claw.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.