Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Failure, Single, Million

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

Mother's Day, God, Made

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

Everything, Others, Son

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

Woman, Guess, Certainty

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling

Women, Soldier, Left

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling

Powerful, Words, Used

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling

Equality, Else, Everyone

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

Mother, Worth, Clergy

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

Fool, Woman, Needs

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?'
Rudyard Kipling

Art, Heart, Pretty

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

Best, Everybody, Trouble

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

Gardening, Beautiful, Made

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling

Nature, Yourself, Trouble

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

History, Forgotten, Stories

He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

Travel, Alone, Travels

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

Worth, Run, Distance

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

Good, Woman, Smoke

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling

Love, Mother, Follow

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

Himself, Purple, Beggar

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling

Patience, Love, Heaven

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

Real, Again, Desire

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

Deadly, Female, Male

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

Children, Why, Tell

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling

Shadow, Ends, Resembling

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

Mind, Him, Tell

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 30, 1865

Died: January 18, 1936

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