Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

About Rudyard Kipling:

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.
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Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-' 'Ruskin isn't an ass,' said M'Turk. 'He's almost as good as the Opium-Eater. He says we...

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It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended); further, that they were malignant in their dispo...

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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans ...

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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.

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

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

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There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?" [ ]

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

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

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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

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

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

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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

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He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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

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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?'

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It's clever, but is it Art?

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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;!

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If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds w...

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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his p...

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Author Bio

  • NameRudyard Kipling
  • DescriptionEnglish short-story writer, poet, and novelist
  • AliasesJoseph Rudyard Kipling
  • BornDecember 30, 1865
  • DiedJanuary 18, 1936
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist; Reporter; Children's Writer; Autobiographer
  • WorksThe Jungle Book; Kim; If—
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature