Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling

After, Old, She

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!'
Rudyard Kipling

Heart, Long, Nothing

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Rudyard Kipling

Mad, Everyone, Point

It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling

Down, Fall, Backwards

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.
Rudyard Kipling

Fire, Small, Less

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
Rudyard Kipling

Him, Again, Once

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

Alone, Down, Travels

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

Country, Foreign, Condition

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling

Beauty, Women, Mad

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling

Mother, Soul, Whole

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 30, 1865

Died: January 18, 1936

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