Rudyard Kipling Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, War, Four

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Ballad of the King's Jest"

• No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Horse, Military

  "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems".

• Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  'Just So Stories' (1902) 'The Cat that Walked by Himself'

• Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, Nice, Lying

  Rudyard Kipling (2017). “The Cat that Walked by Himself (English French Edition illustrated): Le Chat qui s’en va tout seul (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.3, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, War, Puff

  'The Ballad of the King's Jest' (1892)

• We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Art, Horse

  'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)

• I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, Men, Dead Man

  Rudyard Kipling (2005). “Captains Courageous”, p.125, Penguin

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