Rudyard Kipling quotes Born: 12/30/1865 Died: 01/18/1936 Country: united_kingdom

• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. (Rudyard Kipling) [more]
• Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. (Rudyard Kipling)
• If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same. (Rudyard Kipling)
• If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. (Rudyard Kipling) [form]
• We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Rudyard Kipling) [excuse]
• Everyone is more or less mad on one point. (Rudyard Kipling) [more/point]
• Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. (Rudyard Kipling)
• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble. (Rudyard Kipling)
• Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. (Rudyard Kipling)
• I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. (Rudyard Kipling) [men]
• The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool. (Rudyard Kipling) [needs/fool]
• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. (Rudyard Kipling) [god]
• A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. (Rudyard Kipling)
• And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. (Rudyard Kipling) [start/fight/epitaph/fool]
• Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities. (Rudyard Kipling) [give/cold]
• Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. (Rudyard Kipling) [feast/caste/laughter/sadness]
• Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling) [words/mankind]
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. (Rudyard Kipling)
• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. (Rudyard Kipling) [love/sin]
• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble. (Rudyard Kipling)
• We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Rudyard Kipling) [excuse]
• I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who. (Rudyard Kipling) [men]
• Everyone is more or less mad on one point. (Rudyard Kipling) [more/point]
• Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears. (Rudyard Kipling) [compliments]
• But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die. (Rudyard Kipling) [remember/right/love/pity]
• Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. (Rudyard Kipling) [patience/love]
• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling) [words/mankind]
• A people always ends by resembling its shadow. (Rudyard Kipling) [people/shadow]
• All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They. (Rudyard Kipling) [people]
• If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on! (Rudyard Kipling) [willpower]

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