Quote#Books & Reading
It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world
Quote byRudyard Kipling · 1865–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Seven Seas (1896), Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, Stanza 6..
English (original)
It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you're readin' done, An' turn another—likely not so good; But what you're after is to turn 'em all.
— Rudyard Kipling
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