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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi QUOTES

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi QUOTES

1 " Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

2 " The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot–snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump–and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

3 " Rikki-tikki "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

4 " because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in; "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

5 " Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

6 " He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

7 " THIS "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

8 " single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink. He could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use. He could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle brush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long grass was: "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

9 " between his finger and thumb and said he was not dead but half choked. So they wrapped him in cotton wool, and warmed him over a little fire, and he opened his eyes and sneezed. “Now,” said the big man (he was an Englishman who had just moved into the bungalow), “don’t frighten him, and we’ll see what he’ll do.” It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. He looked at the cotton wool, decided that it was "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

10 " Segowlee) "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

11 " pick him up by the tail, or try to put him in a cage, he’ll run in and out of the house all day long. Let’s give him something to eat.” They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better. “There are more things to find out about in this house,” he said to himself, “than all my family could find out in all their lives. I shall certainly stay and find out.” He spent all that day roaming over the house. He nearly drowned himself in the bathtubs, "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

12 " mongoose "

― Rudyard Kipling , Rikki-Tikki-Tavi