Joseph Rudyard Kipling citáty strana 4

„Zahalil se do citátů - jako by se žebrák zahalil do císařského purpuru.“

„Ve svém životě jsem nikdy neudělal chybu; přinejmenším nikdy tu, kterou jsem poté nemohl vysvětlit.“

„Červeného vína, knih ani munice není nikdy dost.“

„Domněnka ženy bývá přesnější než jistota muže.“

„Chceš realizovat své sny? Probuď se!“

Varianta: Domněnka ženy bývá jistější než nejistota muže.

Citát považujeme za podezřelý, nemáme důkazy podporující autorství

„I nejhloupější žena dokáže ovládnout chytrého muže, ale jen velmi chytrá žena dokáže ovládnout blázna.“

Zdroj: V knize "Zneuznání Edisoni" jako autor uváděn nějaký Siegrid.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling: Citáty o mužích

„Když žena něco tuší, je mnohem blíže pravdě, než když muž něco s určitostí ví.“

„Šest věrných mužů slouží mi (vše, co vím, od nich mám) jejich jména jsou – CO, Kdo, Kdy, Proč, Jak a Kam“

„Více mužů bylo zabito přepracováním, než význam světa může ospravedlnit.“

„Žena je jen žena. Ale dobré cigárko, to je pokouřeníčko!“

Joseph Rudyard Kipling citáty a výroky

„Slova jsou nejsilnější droga, kterou lidstvo užívá.“

Citát pochází z básně The Betrothed https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/betrothed.html

(en) And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
Varianta: Žena je jenom žena. Ale dobré cigáro, to je přece pokouřeníčko!

„Máte-li v sobě prostou krásu a nic jiného, máte asi to nejlepší, co Bůh stvořil.“

„Co mohou vědět o Anglii lidé, kteří znají jenom Anglii?“

„Dle zákona džungle trest uzavírá účet. V džungli nemá místo posuzování či zpochybňování trestu.“

„Počítej se zákony, ale i s tím, že existují výjimky.“

„Ať už potkáš výhru nebo porážku, s oběma těmito lhářkami jednej se stejnou tváří.“

„Za všechno, co si vezmeme, musíme zaplatit, ale cena je krutě vysoká.“

„Nedůvěra patří do čeledi hlodavců.“

„Všichni jsme ostrovy navzájem křičící lži přes moře nedorozumění.“

„A kdo se optá, proč jsme padli. Řekni - neboť otcové nám lhali.“

„Cokoliv přijde nebo nepřijde, my lidé se nesmíme bát.“

Common Form, 1918

„Můj kokr je můj nejupřímnější obdivovatel. Miluje mě, aniž četl mé knihy.“

povídka Děti Zodiaka ze sbírky Many Inventions

„Naučte mne radovat se z věcí prostých a žít zvesela bez hořké pachuti. Odpuštění nás oprostí od zla. Přejme lásku všem lidem pod sluncem.“

„Když mladé slunce září svou pokrylo zeleň Edenu, náš otec Adam seděl pod stromem a škrábal dřívkem na hlínu, hned první kostrbaté čáry mu srdce pýchou naplní, tu d'ábel sladce zašeptá: „Pěkné, ale je to umění?““

Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 301]

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

Zdroj: Alberto Manguel, Čtení obrazů
Zdroj: Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops

Joseph Rudyard Kipling: Citáty anglicky

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

Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stanza 1 (1906).
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

“Body and spirit I surrendered whole
To harsh instructors—and received a soul…
If mortal man could change me through and through
From all I was—What may the God not do?”

Rudyard Kipling kniha The Jungle Book

Road-Song of the Bandar-Log.
The Jungle Book (1894)

“From little towns in a far land we came,
To save our honour and a world aflame.
By little towns in a far land we sleep,
And trust the world we won for you to keep.”

The Wonder
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)

“Men and women may sometimes, after great effort, achieve a creditable lie; but the house, which is their temple, cannot say anything save the truth of those who have lived in it.”

Canadian Memorial (2).
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)

“God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

"They," published in Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
Other works

“To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,
To my brethren in their sorrow overseas,
Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed,
And a trooper of the Empress, if you please.”

Rudyard Kipling Recessional

Stanza 1.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!”

Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law —
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 4.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time;
I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts,
An' four o' the lot was prime.
One was an 'arf-caste widow,
One was a woman at Prome,
One was the wife of a jemadar-sais,
An' one is a girl at 'ome.”

Rudyard Kipling Recessional

Stanza 4.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

“So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man.”

The Ladies, Stanza 1 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again:
Out o' the cold an' the rain, sergeant,
Out o' the cold an' the rain.”

Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State,
They arrive at their conclusions—largely inarticulate.
Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none:
But sometimes in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done.”

Back to the Army Again, refrain (1894).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“… scandals are only increased by hushing them up.”

The Puzzler http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/puzzler.html, Stanza 3 (1909). <br class="br">Other works

“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”

The Gardener (1925) .
Other works

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

Said to author and critic André Maurois c. 1930, on the subject of the transformation of Germany.
Quoted in Maurois, The Art of Writing, “The Writer's Craft,” sct. 2 (1960).
Other works

“For you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do—hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!”

A Tree Song,
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

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

Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

Screw-Guns, Stanza 6.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.”

Rudyard Kipling kniha The Second Jungle Book

The Law of the Jungle, Stanza 19.
The Second Jungle Book (1895)

“So I'll meet 'im later on
At the place where 'e is gone—
Where it's always double drill and no canteen.
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drink to poor damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
Yes, Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”

The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 4
Other works

“When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier…”

Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

Gunga Din, Stanza 5.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

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

Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

Young British Soldier, Stanza 9.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.”

A Smuggler's Song.
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

“When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took—the same as me!”

Rudyard Kipling kniha Plain Tales from the Hills

False Dawn.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

When 'Omer Smote 'is Bloomin' Lyre http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/omersmote.html, Stanza 1 (1894). <br class="br">Other works

“For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.”

The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
Other works

“If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier…”

Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

The Ladies, Stanza VIII.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)