Quotes By Author: Rudyard Kipling
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
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“What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?”
“There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear.”
“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.”
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
“A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18”
“Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.”