Rikki Tikki Quotes

#1. It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death.

Rudyard Kipling

#3. Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.

Rudyard Kipling

#4. Because of Kipling, I've sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland - zero, when last I checked - we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Michael Dirda

#5. every predator loves easy prey. Her lip curled, baring fangs that there was no one there to see. Because she wasn't prey. In the vamp world, she was pretty much the apex predator, the mongoose to his snake. And she was about to Rikki Tikki Tavi his ass. Dory

Karen Chance

#6. Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder,

Ruskin Bond

#7. (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)

Rudyard Kipling

#8. Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?

Rudyard Kipling

#9. They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. (Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)

Rudyard Kipling

#11. Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.

John Green

#12. It's more like winning than winning itself, and everyone knows you are not a real player until you secretly prefer losing.

Lawrence Osborne

#13. I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Lady Gaga

#14. Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

Margaret Atwood

#15. I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Alexander Pope

#16. Who has delivered us, who? Tell me his nest and his name. Rikki, the valiant, the true, Tikki, with eyeballs of flame, Rikk-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eyeballs of flame!

Rudyard Kipling

#17. A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

Jack Kerouac

#18. - Yet only six days ago, you were in my office on your knees telling me you'd do anything to land me as a client.
- I was young and stupid.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#19. Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.

Mark McKinney

#20. Camus said 'Love Lasts or Love Burns'. I want a Lasting Burn-just nothing requiring a series of painful treatments by a rubber-gloved Doctor

Josh Stern