Rudyard Kipling Quotes

English - Writer December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

Mother's Day God Mothers He Made

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

Communication Words Powerful Most

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

Beautiful Gardening Singing Sitting

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

Rudyard Kipling

Look You Down Fall Never

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

Shadow People Always Ends

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Rudyard Kipling

Good Woman Smoke Only

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

Best Believe Always Trouble Much

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

History Never Forgotten Stories

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Rudyard Kipling

City Never See Desire

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

Son Man You World

Top 10
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Quotes

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 You Long Nothing

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

Failure Single Forty Million Reasons

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

Equality People Us Everyone

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

Woman Man Fool Clever

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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Nature Yourself Trouble Your

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

Purple He Himself Beggar

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 Stand Meet

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

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Alone Down Up Who

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

Rudyard Kipling

Travel Understanding Country Smell

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

Alone Travel Who He

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling

Woman Man More Than

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

Women You Soldier Your

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Rudyard Kipling

Mother Mom Worth Pound

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 City People

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

You Never Get Him

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

Children Me Accept Never

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