Quotes · Skopia

20 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Maharashtra✕clear

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

Rudyard Kipling

The Ballad of East and West · 1889

★ 7.5

Take up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

Rudyard Kipling

The White Man's Burden · 1899

★ 7.1

They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam!

Rudyard Kipling

1895

★ 5.5

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Midnight's Children · 1981

★ 3.9

The empire writes back with a vengeance.

1982

★ 3.8

Four things greater than all things are,— Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

1890

★ 3.7

This is a great and terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it.

Rudyard Kipling

Kim · 1901

★ 3.7

Short story · Children's literature

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

The Elephant's Child · 1902

★ 3.7

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling

1911

★ 3.7

If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.

Rudyard Kipling

1919

★ 3.7

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

Rudyard Kipling

1923

★ 3.7

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

1990

★ 3.7

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

If · 1910

★ 3.6

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

If · 1910

★ 3.6

Speech · Commencement address

But it’s a resilient place, the world, and its beauty is still astonishing, and as for the mess we’ve made, you can change it, and I believe you’re going to.

2015

★ 3.6

What should they know of England who only England know?

Rudyard Kipling

1891

★ 2.1

Interview · Magazine

Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that.

2015

★ 2.1

Who hath desired the Sea? The sight of salt water unbounded?

Rudyard Kipling

Kim · 1901

★ 2.0

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw · 1888

★ 1.2

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

1990

★ 1.1