Rudyard Kipling He died on a day like today in 1936 in London. It's one of the great authors in the english language, both for his stories and narratives and for his poetry. He was also a controversial figure for his imperialist ideas and spent the early years of his childhood in India. But what we are left with is a work with some of the most recognizable titles in the history of literature, such as The book of the jungle, Kim o Fearless Captains. Today to remember it goes this phrase selection of those works.
Rudyard Kipling — Selected Phrases
The light that goes out
- You must learn to forgive a man when he is in love.
- We are all islands screaming lies at each other through seas of misunderstanding.
- The world is very beautiful, and it is very horrible, and it doesn't care about your life, mine or any other.
- I have my own matches and brimstone, and I am going to make my own hell.
- It is difficult to live alone in the dark, confusing day and night; falling to sleep out of sheer exhaustion at noon, and waking restless in the chill of dawn.
The book of the jungle
- The pack has to be aware of everything. You have to show him this human cub. Do you still have the firm decision to stay with him?
- Silence, my love, that the night grows.
- You have such confidence in yourself that you are absolutely careless. One more proof that you belong to the human race. You have to be cautious.
- It's no use being a man if I don't understand the language that men use.
- Your heart is big and your tongue skillful. Between the two things you will go very far.
- You have such confidence in yourself that you are absolutely careless. One more proof that you belong to the human race. You have to be cautious.
- The beasts know that man is the most defenseless animal in nature. It is not a prey worthy of a hunter that boasts of being one.
- A liar only lies when he trusts that they will believe him.
- Do not be angry. That really is the worst cowardice.
- In the Jungle even the smallest creatures can be prey.
- Sleep peacefully, and let there be no crying, no dreams that fill the sea with bitterness.
- For the strength of the pack is in the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is in the pack.
- You are really a man now. You are no longer a human cub. There is no longer a place for you in the Jungle. Let the tears flow, Mowgli.
Fearless Captains
- As for me, I want freedom or death.
- Men who are used to eating at tiny tables during terrible storms have very clean and delicate habits.
- Your heart will break from crying so much. God knows that I also have my reasons to cry and I don't...
- It is useless to forbid me to do what I want… The young are always so courteous to the elders and the elders are always so willing to esteem this courtesy.
- The handsome young men on board, like me, like you, Manuel and Pennsy, are the second batch. We eat after the first ones have finished. They are old, small and wrinkled fish. That is why they are served first, which they do not deserve.
Kim
- There is no sin as serious as ignorance. Always remember this.
- You cannot choose Liberation and at the same time remain a slave to the delights of life.
- Education, if it is good, is the greatest of blessings. Otherwise it is useless.
- Men are like horses. Sometimes they need salt, and if they don't find it in the manger they will go and lick it off the ground.
- The soil was good, clean soil: not fresh weeds, which by the mere fact of living are already halfway to death, but soil full of hope that contains the seed of all life.
- Those who ask in silence in silence are starving.