Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love lik...

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

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your ow...

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in ...

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind...

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for ...

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a consta...

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when t...

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

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

It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were g...

Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass...

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the mid-day su...

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it ma...

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight...

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, an...

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's ...

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over,...

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

You may kill for yourselves, and your mates,and your cubs as they need, and you can;But kill not for...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one ha...

It's clever, but is it Art?

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

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If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would foll...

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

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

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

Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single si...

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains,...

Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serv...

Something I owe to the soil that grew--More to the life that fed--But most to Allah who gave me two ...

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and sla...

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...

If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust...

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; I...

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trus...

All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else i...

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

There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom

The Power of the Dogby Rudyard KiplingThere is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women t...

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast r...

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each in...

What should they know of England who only England know?

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it m...

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

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can tru...

Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I ...

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

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

One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seekin...

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The Law of the Jungle NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wol...

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

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispe...

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal.

It's clever but is it art?

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

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' H...

But that is another story.

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

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges....

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

We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder run...

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will ...

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and H...

A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair ...

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

What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey wi...

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can tru...

All the people like us are We And everyone else is They.

Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he ...

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactl...

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

It's clever, but is it art?

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for mone...

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each in...

There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain ...

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!