Kipling Kim Quotes & Sayings

I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim? His soul repeated it again and again. — Rudyard Kipling

Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations. — Rudyard Kipling

Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel. — Rudyard Kipling

For Kim did nothing with an immense success. — Rudyard Kipling

Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs. — Rudyard Kipling

The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach, not to criticize, just for love - he read it, as Kipling wrote it, just because he liked to, wanted to, couldn't help himself. To him it wasn't a means to a lecture or article, it was an end; he read it not for anything he could get out of it, but for itself. And isn't this what the work of art demands of us? The work of art, Rilke said, says to us always: You must change your life. It demands of us that we too see things as ends, not as means - that we too know them and love them for their own sake. This change is beyond us, perhaps, during the active, greedy, and powerful hours of our lives; but duringthe contemplative and sympathetic hours of our reading, our listening, our looking, it is surely within our power, if we choose to make it so, if we choose to let one part of our nature follow its natural desires. So I say to you, for a closing sentence, Read at whim! read at whim! — Randall Jarrell

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. — Rudyard Kipling

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. The Lama in Kim — Rudyard Kipling

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. — Rudyard Kipling