Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Wisdom

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Wisdom

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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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

Life

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

— Rudyard Kipling

Love

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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He travels the fastest who travels alone.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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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

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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

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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

Love

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?'

— Rudyard Kipling

Love

It's clever, but is it Art?

— Rudyard Kipling

Wisdom

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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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

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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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

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

— Rudyard Kipling

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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

Wisdom

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

— Rudyard Kipling

Wisdom