Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunge Din.

— Rudyard Kipling

Threatened men live long.

— Rudyard Kipling

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

— Rudyard Kipling

We have done with Hope and Honor, 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, for we knew the worst too young!from "Gentleman Bankers

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

What avail is honor or a sword against a pen?

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

What is a woman that you forsake herald the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old gray widow-maker?

— Rudyard Kipling