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Rudyard Kipling

English writer and poet

1865–1936

44 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Women and Animals.

Four things greater than all things are,⁠—
Women and Horses and Power and War.
Other works
- War & Peace
- Women
This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers.
We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
- Courage
- War & Peace
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918), Common Form
- Truth & Lies
- War & Peace
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot.
Tommy (1890), Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896), Tommy, Stanza 5.In context
- War & Peace
We’re foot⁠—slog⁠—slog⁠—slog⁠—sloggin’ over Africa!
Foot⁠—foot⁠—foot⁠—foot⁠—sloggin’ over Africa⁠—
(Boots⁠—boots⁠—boots⁠—boots, movin’ up and down again!)
There’s no discharge in the war!
Boots (1903)In context
- War & Peace
I⁠—‘ave⁠—marched⁠—six⁠—weeks in ‘Ell an’ certify
It⁠—is⁠—not⁠—fire⁠—devils dark or anything
But boots⁠—boots⁠—boots, movin’ up an’ down again,
An’ there’s no discharge in the war!
Boots (1903)In context
- War & Peace

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