I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

The Law of the Jungle 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...

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had...

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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...

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it’s worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.Nine hundred and ninety-nine dependOn what the world sees...

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.As the...

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody...

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

The Power of the Dogby Rudyard KiplingThere is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; And when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always...

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn’t even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his...

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but...

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.

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...

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

O it’s Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy ‘ow’s your soul/But it’s thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

We had a kettle; we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven’t had any tea for a week…The bottom is out of the Universe.

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...

We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us,...

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind...

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

(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 discrepancies between speech...

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

There is but one task for all –One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom fall?”[For All We Have and Are]

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, — which is the most soul-satisfying fear...

It seems – and who so astonished as they? – that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended);...

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...

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Something I owe to the soil that grew–More to the life that fed–But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or...

All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by...

What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the...

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call ‘civilization.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose...

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I’ll make my own hell.

We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.