Цитаты из книги автора Joseph Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book

“Would it were so in Afghanistan!” said the chief; “for there we obey only our own wills.”

They were al­ways just go­ing to have a leader and laws and cus­toms of their own, but they never did, be­cause their mem­o­ries would not hold over from day to day, and so they set­tled things by mak­ing up a say­ing: “What the Ban­dar-log think now the Jun­gle will think later”; and that com­forted them a great deal.

Who are we, the Gidur-log [the Jackal Peo­ple], to pick and choose?”

Even the tiger hides when lit­tle Tabaqui goes mad, for mad­ness is the most dis­grace­ful thing that can over­take a wild crea­ture.

for the time comes when this naked thing will make thee roar to an­other tune, or I know noth­ing of Man.

“But are the beasts as wise as the men?” said the chief.

“They obey, as the men do. Mule, horse, ele­phant, or bul­lock, he obeys his driver, and the driver his sergeant, and the sergeant his lieu­tenant, and the lieu­tenant his cap­tain, and the cap­tain his ma­jor, and the ma­jor his colonel, and the colonel his brigadier com­mand­ing three reg­i­ments, and the brigadier his gen­eral, who obeys the Viceroy, who is the ser­vant of the Em­press. Thus it is done.”

“Oh, I’m not talk­ing to you. You can’t see in­side your heads.”

“No. We see out of our four eyes,” said the bul­locks. “We see straight in front of us.”

Chuchun­dra is a bro­ken­hearted lit­tle beast. He whim­pers and cheeps all the night, try­ing to make up his mind to run into the mid­dle of the room, but he never gets there.

Na­gaina, Nag’s wicked wife.

“Who is Nag?” he said, “I am Nag. The great god Brahm put his mark upon all our peo­ple when the first co­bra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Look, and be afraid!”