Rudyard Kipling Quotes

"Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger." ~ Kim by Rudyard Kipling "I have seen something of this world," she said over the crowded trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it - those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this." ~ Kim by Rudyard Kipling After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food. ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular. ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling "I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man." ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling "Prize, oh! Haul!" shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water. ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin' " ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling