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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And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23).

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These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie dow...

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He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (I...

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Something I owe to the soil that grew--More to the life that fed--But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.

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God help us for we knew the worst too young.

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

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

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

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

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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reser...

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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Perhaps there were a few repetitions here and there. But I would like to confess that I consider nature and human life to be a lovely and charming flow of fleeting repetitions, and I would like further to confess that I regard this phenomenon as a be...

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Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

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On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.

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Only one who loves can remember so well.

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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

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

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

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

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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