Citas de El libro de la selva

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.

And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs–frog-eater– fish-killer–he shall hunt thee!.

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward.

To each his own fear';.

The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence...

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,.

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.

These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?.

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools..........

I am more likely to give help than to ask it"—Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it—"still I should like to know.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,.