Occupation: Writer Birth: December 30, 1865 Death: January 18, 1936
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devo….
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!.
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!.
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity..
Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow..
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They..
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of….
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in ….
I've taken my fun where I've found it..
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind..
Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'.
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden..
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green..
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown..
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?.
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance..
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy..
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right..
Payday came and with it beer.
Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim.