Words matter. These are the best Rudyard Kipling Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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?’
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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!
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
A man’s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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!’
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
