Facts about Rudyard Kipling

Occup.Writer
FromEngland
BornDecember 30, 1865
DiedJanuary 18, 1936
Aged70 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: Equality - Travel - Gardening.

33 Famous quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Small: Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being t
"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"
Small: I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble"
Small: When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest
"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"
Small: God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers"
Small: Everyone is more or less mad on one point
"Everyone is more or less mad on one point"
Small: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy"
Small: All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They
"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They"
Small: A womans guess is much more accurate than a mans certainty
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty"
Small: A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke
"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke"
Small: A people always ends by resembling its shadow
"A people always ends by resembling its shadow"
Small: A mans mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower
"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower"
Small: Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone
"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone"
Small: Borrow trouble for yourself, if thats your nature, but dont lend it to your neighbours
"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours"
Small: Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too
"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old"
Small: And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered
"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?""
Small: And that is called paying the Dane-geld but weve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid
"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"
Small: Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade
"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade"
Small: For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one
"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one"
Small: For the female of the species is more deadly than the male
"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male"
Small: Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run"
Small: Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, t
"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"
Small: The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it
"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it"
Small: Heaven grant us patience with a man in love
"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love"
Small: He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors
"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors"
Small: He travels the fastest who travels alone
"He travels the fastest who travels alone"
Small: Never look backwards or youll fall down the stairs
"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs"
Small: Its clever, but is it Art?
"It's clever, but is it Art?"
Small: If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will
"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"
Small: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hol
"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!'"
Small: If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o mine, O mother o mine! I know whose love would follow me
"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!"
Small: If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o mine o mother o m
"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine"
Small: If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten"
Small: I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it agai
"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"