Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
It's clever, but is it Art?
And How and Where and Who.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, b...
What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—you’ll be a Man, my son!
It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger's nose till he is clear of Asia again
