Rudyard Kipling Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• I have eaten your bread and salt.
  I have drunk your water and wine.
  The deaths ye died I have watched beside
  And the lives ye led were mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wine, Drunk, Water

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

• You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fighting, Beer, Water

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.418, Wordsworth Editions

• It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  Rudyard Kipling, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.43, GENERAL PRESS

• I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Lost Love, Kissing

  Rudyard Kipling (1993). “The Jungle Book”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

• When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Hate, Eye, Light

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Stories and Poems”, p.113, OUP Oxford

• As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fire, Water, Return

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.817, Wordsworth Editions

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