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Kim QUOTES

Kim QUOTES

1 " He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

2 " There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

3 " This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

4 " I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

5 " For Kim did nothing with an immense success. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

6 " No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

7 " I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

8 " The meaning of my star is war. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

9 " He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

10 " India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake and more excited than anyone, chewing on a twig that he would presently use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from all the customs of the country he knew and loved. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

11 " Those who beg in silence starve in silence, "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

12 " An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here was evidently a woman used to command. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

13 " and with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to. They were all real and true—solidly "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

14 " His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

15 " I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

16 " How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not counting the others -- and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains! "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

17 " I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp," said the lama, smiling slowly. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

18 " Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

19 " God He knows we need men more and more in the Game. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim

20 " Nosotros no nos hemos separado por completo, pero aún no ha llegado el momento de que volvamos juntos a la carretera. Ahora está adquiriendo conocimientos en otro lugar. No tenemos más remedio que esperar. "

― Rudyard Kipling , Kim