His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny y...
Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,
Ay, roar well, said Bagheera, under his whiskers, for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,And the Gods of th...
For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'im out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot.
Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.
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 Yours is the Earth an...
Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal.
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
You may kill for yourselves, and your mates,and your cubs as they need, and you can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, andSEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.
What is this, said the leopard,that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?
These be the sort — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with — These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe,...
I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.
I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my p...
He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, th...
Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.
Across a world where all men grieveAnd grieving strive the more,The great days range like tides and leaveOur dead on every shore.