# Rudyard Kipling

- Quotes: 50
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling

## Books

- [Barrack-Room Ballads](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads.md) — 26 quotes
- [Just So Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories.md) — 3 quotes
- [Plain Tales from the Hills](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/plain-tales-from-the-hills.md) — 8 quotes
- [Puck of Pook's Hill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill.md) — 4 quotes
- [Rewards and Fairies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/rewards-and-fairies.md) — 1 quote
- [The Jungle Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle-book.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Second Jungle Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-second-jungle-book.md) — 3 quotes

## Recently added quotes

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories/i-am-the.md)

> Take of English earth as much
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> As either hand may rightly clutch.
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> In the taking of it breathe
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> Prayer for all who lie beneath.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/rewards-and-fairies/take-of-english.md)

> When the cabin port-holes are dark and green
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> Because of the seas outside;
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> When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between)
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> And the steward falls into the soup-tureen,
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> And the trunks begin to slide;
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> When Nursey lies on the floor in a heap,
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> And Mummy tells you to let her sleep,
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> And you aren't waked or washed or dressed,
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> Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed)
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> You're ‘Fifty North and Forty West!'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories/when-the-cabin.md)

> She has no strong white arms to fold you,
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> But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you—
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> Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/she-has-no-strong.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories/i-keep-six.md)

> Cities and Thrones and Powers,
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> Stand in Time's eye,
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> Almost as long as flowers,
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> Which daily die:
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> But, as new buds put forth
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> To glad new men,
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> Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
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> The Cities rise again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/cities-and-thrones.md)

> Of all the trees that grow so fair,
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> Old England to adorn,
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> Greater are none beneath the Sun,
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> Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/of-all-the.md)

> Five and twenty ponies
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> Trotting through the dark—
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> Brandy for the Parson,
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> 'Baccy for the Clerk.
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> Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie—
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> Watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/five-and-twenty.md)

> When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
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> Lie down till the leaders have spoken—it may be fair words shall prevail.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-second-jungle-book/when-pack-meets.md)

> Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
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> This is the way of the Monkey-kind!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle-book/brother-thy-tail.md)

> We be of one blood, ye and I.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle-book/we-be-of-one.md)

> Now these are the Laws of the jungle, and many and mighty are they;
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> But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-second-jungle-book/now-these-are.md)