However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

— Jim Corbett

I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the gray dawn was lighting up the snowy range which Was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything.

— Jim Corbett

In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religions counts for so much-except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - I believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl, or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comoran without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey,

— Jim Corbett

It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their cast or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.

— Jim Corbett

It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track-had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark, and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.

— Jim Corbett

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

— Jim Corbett

The book of nature has no beginning, as it has no end. Open this book where you will, and at any period of your life, and if you have the desire to acquire knowledge you will find it of intense interest, and no matter how long or how intently you study the pages, your interest will not flag, for in nature there is no finality.

— Jim Corbett

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

— Jim Corbett

There is no universal language in the jungles; each species has its own language, and though the vocabulary of some is limited, as in the case of porcupines and vultures, the language of each species is understood by all the jungle-folk.

— Jim Corbett

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

— Jim Corbett