One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
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...
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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?'
But why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?
Those who beg in silence starve in silence,
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.
I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too If you can wait and n...
I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.
Anything from Kipling
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
What's the trouble? I said, knowing well what that trouble was.I've a notion in my head that would make the most splendid story that was ever written. Do let me write it out here. It's such a notion!T...
For Kim did nothing with an immense success.
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...
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.