Rudyard Kipling Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

  Rudyard Kipling

  Prayer, War, Soldier

• If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Father, War, Lied

  "Common Form" l. 1 (1919)

• 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"

• When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Gun, Devil

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.5108, Delphi Classics

• War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Men, Evil

• However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Two, World

  Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches”, Elt Press

• 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)

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