Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

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

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

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

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

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?'

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Delight in the little things.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

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.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

Those who only know England know not England.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

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

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

It's clever, but is it art?

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

The Navy is very old and very wise.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Threatened men live long.