It’s clever, but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout, For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out. We quarrelled about Havanas-we fought o’er a good cheroot, And I know she is exacting, and she says I am a brute. Open the old cigar-box-let me consider a space; In the soft blue veil […]
Comfort it is to say: ‘Of no mean city am I!’
Call a truce, then to our labors – let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures and balances? Which is his season For laughter, forbearance or bloodshed, and what devils move him When he arises to smite us? I do not love him.
You’ll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn’t worth the toil.
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty.
The cable-cars have for all practical purposes made San Francisco a dead level. They take no count of rise or fall, but slide equably on their appointed courses from one end to the other of a six-mile street. They turn corners almost at right angles; cross other lines and, for aught I know, may run […]
They have looked each other between the eyes, and there they found no fault. They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt: They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod, On the haft and the hilt of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of […]
