Rudyard Kipling

(1865 - 1936)

• "It's clever, but is it Art?"
  • Notes: attributed, from his poetry The Conundrum of the Workshops. Other words include pretty, human, and it, in place of clever.

• "Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice."
  • Notes: attributed, from his work The Islanders

• "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."
  • Notes: attributed, from his work The Ballad of East and West

• "A fool there was and he made his prayer,(Even as you and I), To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair."
  • Notes: attributed, from his work The Vampire

• "And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."
  • Notes: attributed, from his work The Betrothed

• "the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine"
  • The Signalman