This year is the centenary of the First World War (1914 – 1918) and throughout the year, there are different events being organised around the UK to commemorate one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
The BBC has put together a number of documentaries, TV and radio dramas around what is also known as the Great War. Tomorrow (4 August) marks the day Great Britain declared war on Germany.
So, you may ask what has Rudyard Kipling got to do with the First World War? Apart from being one of the most popular writers in England in the late 19th century and 20th century in both prose and poetry, he was also a staunch supporter of the British Empire. Indeed, in the 21st century he is considered the authentic voice of the life and character of the British Empire.
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Quotable Quote “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. Rudyard Kipling’s Famous Quotes: I have written the tale of our life For a sheltered people’s mirth, In jesting guise–but ye are wise, And ye know what the jest is worth. – Rudyard Kipling in Departmental Ditties. Though tangled and twisted the course of true love This ditty explains, No tangle’s so tangled it cannot improve. Author: Kipling Quotes Category: Equality Quotes English Writer Quotes 'Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if 'faint and forced the laughter,' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.' Rudyard Kipling Quote Typed on Typewriter Etsy I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.Rudyard Kipling This quote is typed on a 1939 typewriter onto cream colored card stock and measures 6x6 inches. Perfect for framing, making cards, scrapbooking, or other crafts. Famous quotes of Rudyard Kipling. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
When Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, he played a fundamental role in gathering support for the war effort and encouraging young men to join the military. So entrenched was his belief in the war and Britain’s role in it, he sent his own son who had extremely bad eyesight to war with tragic consequences. It was watching the film about his son, “My Boy Jack” last week that got me thinking of Rudyard Kipling and his literary legacy.
Born and brought up in India, most of Rudyard Kipling’s stories were about British soldiers in India.
His most famous works include, The Jungle Book, the story of a boy, Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India; Kim about an orphaned Irish boy living in India and the Just So stories, a collection of fantastic stories for children. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
In today’s post, I’d like to remember Rudyard Kipling through his literature. I’d like to share with you 10 of his quotes that resonate with me. They appeared in his literary works and speeches.
1.“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.” (Kim)
2.“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
3.“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
4.“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
5.“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
6.“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
7. “We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
8. “Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
9.“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
10. “This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.” (Kim)
Have you read any of Rudyard Kipling’s stories? What is/are your favourite?
Quotes Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling Quotes Poems
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.: Plain Tales from the Hills
- Gardens
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Military
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it's “Savior of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot. Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat.- Peoples and Places
On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay! I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where And Who.- Self-Control
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too; . . .
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same . . .
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Teach us Delight in simple things,
And Mirth that has no bitter springs.- Smoking
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.