Facts about Rudyard Kipling

Occup.	Writer
From	England
Born	December 30, 1865
Died	January 18, 1936
Aged	70 years

Summary

Rudyard Kipling was a famous Writer from England, who lived between December 30, 1865 and January 18, 1936. He/she became 70 years old.

Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by Rudyard, under the main topics: Travel - Gardening - Equality.

33 Famous quotes by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy"

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"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"

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"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love"

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"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"

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"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"

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"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!'"

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"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"

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"Everyone is more or less mad on one point"

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

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"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They"

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

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

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

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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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"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"

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

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"A people always ends by resembling its shadow"

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

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

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

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

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

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"He travels the fastest who travels alone"

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"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 such a shower of bullets"

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

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

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"It's clever, but is it Art?"

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"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!"

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

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