The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (54 page)

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same...

Rewards and Fairies (1910) "If--"

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss...

Rewards and Fairies (1910) "If--"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Rewards and Fairies (1910) "If--"

One man in a thousand, Solomon says,

Will stick more close than a brother.

Rewards and Fairies (1910) "The Thousandth Man"

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1919) "The Female of the Species"

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man--

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:--

That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,

And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1927) "The Gods of the Copybook Headings"

England's on the anvil--hear the hammers ring--

Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne!

Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King--

England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into line!

Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1927) "The Anvil"

Now this is the Law of the Jungle--as old and as true as the sky;

And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall

break it must die.

Second Jungle Book (1895) "The Law of the Jungle"

Keep ye the law--be swift in all obedience--

Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.

Make ye sure to each his own

That he reap where he hath sown;

By the peace among our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!

The Seven Seas (1896) "A Song of the English"

We have fed our sea for a thousand years

And she calls us, still unfed,

Though there's never a wave of all her waves

But marks our English dead:

We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest

To the shark and sheering gull.

If blood be the price of admiralty,

Lord God, we ha' paid in full!

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Song of the Dead"

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!

The Seven Seas (1896) "Last Chantey"

The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds--

The Man-o'-War 's 'er 'usband, 'an 'e gives 'er all she needs;

But, oh, the little cargo boats that sail the wet seas roun',

They're just the same as you 'an me a-plyin' up and down!

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Liner She's a Lady"

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!

The Seven Seas (1896) p. 162

I've taken my fun where I've found it,

An' now I must pay for my fun,

For the more you 'ave known o' the others

The less will you settle to one;

An' the end of it's sittin' and thinkin',

An' dreamin' Hell-fires to see;

So be warned by my lot (which I know you will not),

An' learn about women from me!

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Ladies"

An' I learned about women from 'er!

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Ladies"

When you get to a man in the case,

They're like as a row of pins--

For the Colonel 's Lady an' Judy O'Grady

Are sisters under their skins!

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Ladies"

The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone;

'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own;

'E keeps 'is side-arms awful: 'e leaves 'em all about,

An' then comes up the Regiment an' pokes the 'eathen out.

The Seven Seas (1896) "The 'Eathen"

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began.

But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

The Seven Seas (1896) "The 'Eathen"

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,

But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,

Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!

The Seven Seas (1896) "When Earth's Last Picture is Painted"

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

Mr Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in a gutter, and bred in a

Board-School, where they played marbles. He was further (I give the barest

handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a

Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky's contribution), and several

other things which it is not seemly to put down.

Stalky & Co. (1899) p. 214

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg

without salt.

The Story of the Gadsbys (1889) "Poor Dear Mamma"

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

The Story of the Gadsbys (1890) "L'Envoi"

'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some

women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

Traffics and Discoveries (1904) "Mrs Bathurst"

It's north you may run to the rime-ringed sun,

Or south to the blind Horn's hate;

Or east all the way into Mississippi Bay,

Or west to the Golden Gate.

Twenty Poems (1918) "The Long Trail"

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--

(Even as you and I!)

The Vampire (1897) p. 1

Take up the White Man's burden--

Send forth the best ye breed--

Go, bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need;

To wait, in heavy harness,

On fluttered folk and wild--

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child.

The White Man's Burden (1899)

By all ye will or whisper,

By all ye leave or do,

The silent sullen peoples

Shall weigh your God and you.

The White Man's Burden (1899)

If any question why we died,

Tell them, because our fathers lied.

The Years Between (1919) "Common Form"

11.34 Henry Kissinger =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1923-

"We are the President's men," he [Kissinger] would exclaim, "and we must

behave accordingly."

M. and B. Kalb Kissinger (1974) ch. 7

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

In New York Times Magazine 1 June 1969, p. 11

Power, he [Kissinger] has observed, "is the great aphrodisiac."

New York Times 19 Jan. 1971, p. 12

11.35 Fred Kitchen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1872-1950

Meredith, we're in!

Catch-phrase originating in The Bailiff (1907 stage sketch)--see J. P.

Gallagher Fred Karno (1971) ch. 9, p. 90

11.36 Lord Kitchener =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1850-1916

You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French

comrades against the invasion of a common enemy. You have to perform a

task which will need your courage, your energy, your patience. Remember

that the honour of the British Army depends on your individual conduct. It

will be your duty not only to set an example of discipline and perfect

steadiness under fire, but also to maintain the most friendly relations

with those whom you are helping in this struggle. The operations in which

you are engaged will, for the most part, take place in a friendly country,

and you can do your own country no better service than in showing yourself

in France and Belgium in the true character of a British soldier.

Be invariably courteous, considerate, and kind. Never do anything likely

to injure or destroy property, and always look upon looting as a

disgraceful act. You are sure to meet with a welcome and to be trusted;

your conduct must justify that welcome and that trust.

Your duty cannot be done unless your health is sound. So keep constantly

on your guard against any excesses. In this new experience you may find

temptations both in wine and women. You must entirely resist both

temptations, and, while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you

should avoid any intimacy. Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the

King.

Message to soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (1914), in The

Times 19 Aug. 1914

11.37 Paul Klee =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1879-1940

Eine aktive Linie, die sich frei ergeht, ein Spaziergang um seiner selbst

willen, ohne Ziel. Das agens ist ein Punkt, der sich verschiebt.

An active line on a walk, moving freely without a goal. A walk for walk's

sake.

P�dagogisches Skizzenbuch (Pedagogical Sketchbook, 1925) p. 6

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Sch�pferische Konfession (Creative Credo, 1920) in Im Zwischenreich

(1957) (Inward Vision, 1958) p. 5

11.38 Charles Knight and Kenneth Lyle =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Here we are! here we are!! here we are again!!!

There's Pat and Mac and Tommy and Jack and Joe.

When there's trouble brewing,

When there's something doing,

Are we downhearted?

No! Let 'em all come!

Here we are! Here we are again!! (1914 song)

11.39 Frederick Knott =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1916-

Dial "M" for murder.

Title of play (1952)

11.40 Monsignor Ronald Knox =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1888-1957

There once was a man who said, "God

Must think it exceedingly odd

If he finds that this tree

Continues to be

When there's no one about in the Quad."

In Langford Reed Complete Limerick Book (1924) p. 44 (This reply was

written by an unknown author)

Dear Sir,

Your astonishment's odd:

I am always about in the Quad.

And that's why the tree

Will continue to be,

Since observed by

Yours faithfully,

God.)

The tumult and the shouting dies,

The captains and the kings depart,

And we are left with large supplies

Of cold blancmange and rhubarb tart.

In R. Eyres In Three Tongues (1959) p. 130 "After the Party"--a parody of

Kipling 126:9

It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the

devil, when he is the only explanation of it.

Let Dons Delight (1939) ch. 8

11.41 Arthur Koestler =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1905-1983

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the

beating of war drums.

Janus (1978) prologue

Man can leave the earth and land on the moon, but cannot cross from East

to West Berlin. Prometheus reaches for the stars with an insane grin on

his face and a totem-symbol in his hand.

Janus (1978) prologue

11.42 Jiddu Krishnamurti =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

d. 1986

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by

any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2

11.43 Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Kris Kristofferson 1936-

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose,

Nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free.

Me and Bobby McGee (1969 song)

11.44 Joseph Wood Krutch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1893-1970

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not

Puritanism but February.

Twelve Seasons (1949) "February"

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for

what you want.

Twelve Seasons (1949) "February"

11.45 Stanley Kubrick =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1928-

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations

like prostitutes.

In Guardian 5 June 1963

11.46 Satish Kumar =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-