9 Rudyard Kipling Quotes on Identity

Rudyard Kipling quotes on identity

5. 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.

65. A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

70. Father, Mother, and Me, Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They.

71. We and They, st. 1

72. Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be, And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!

93. When next he came to me he was drunk - royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.

96. Back to the Army again, sergeant, Back to the Army again: Out o' the cold an' the rain, sergeant, Out o' the cold an' the rain.

97. They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam!

105. 'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse - soldier an' sailor too.