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

Rudyard Kipling

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.

Rudyard Kipling

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of ...

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

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.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Rudyard Kipling

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Rudyard Kipling

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Rudyard Kipling

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Rudyard Kipling

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

Rudyard Kipling

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