Famous Rudyard Kipling Quotations

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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
by Rudyard Kipling
"On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' Well - look at Jeannette Rankin. Probably a hundred men in Congress would have liked to do what she did. Not one of them had the courage to do it. The Gazette entirely disagrees with the wisdom of her position. But, Lord, it was a brave thing!"
by William White
"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."
by Rudyard Kipling
"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies."
by Rudyard Kipling
"`This man', said M'Turk, with conviction, `is the Gadarene Swine,'"
by Rudyard Kipling
"A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."
by Rudyard Kipling
"All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They."
by Rudyard Kipling
"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."
by Rudyard Kipling
"An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire."
by Rudyard Kipling
"And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"And How and Where and Who."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Every woman knows all about everything."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Every woman knows all about everything"
by Rudyard Kipling
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Funny how the new things are the old things."
by Rudyard Kipling
"He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors"
by Rudyard Kipling
"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
by Rudyard Kipling
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble."
by Rudyard Kipling
"I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
by Rudyard Kipling
"I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who."
by Rudyard Kipling
"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it."
by Rudyard Kipling
"If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you."
by 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'"
by Rudyard Kipling
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—you’ll be a Man, my son!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger's nose till he is clear of Asia again"
by Rudyard Kipling
"Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'"
by Halford E. Luccock
"No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves ââ?¬â?? but what the teachers are themselves."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Now this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The People - it shall never be again!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again"
by Rudyard Kipling
"She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves"
by Rudyard Kipling
"The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"The female of the species is more deadly than the male."
by Rudyard Kipling
"The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees."
by Rudyard Kipling
"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces"
by Rudyard Kipling
"There is no sin greater than ignorance."
by Rudyard Kipling
"There's no jealousy in the grave."
by Rudyard Kipling
"They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind"
by Rudyard Kipling
"Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh - / He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."
by Rudyard Kipling
"When you've shouted `Rule Britannia', when you've sung `God save the Queen', / When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth."
by Rudyard Kipling
"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?"
by Rudyard Kipling
"Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity."
by Rudyard Kipling
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past."
by Rudyard Kipling
"There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin."
by Rudyard Kipling
"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."
by Rudyard Kipling
"'If' If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: 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!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete in a minute or two-- Something noble and grand and good, Won by merely wishing we could. Now we're going to -- never mind, Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!"
by Rudyard Kipling
"If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss... Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a man my son!"
by Rudyard Kipling, IF
"Now this is the Law of the Jungle, As old and as true as the sky And the wolf that can keep it shall prosper, But the wolf that will break it must die. Like the creeper that girdeth the tree trunk, The Law floweth forward and back, The strength of the pack is the wolf, And the strength of the wolf....is the pack."
by The Law of the Jungle, Rudyard Kipling
"What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride? Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair – to die."
by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"You may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem"
by Rudyard Kipling
"'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street."
by Rudyard Kipling
"God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all."
by Rudyard Kipling
"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."
by Rudyard Kipling
"If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied."
by Rudyard Kipling
"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors."
by Rudyard Kipling
"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, b..."
by Rudyard Kipling
"And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,"
by Rudyard Kipling
"As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place...."
by Rudyard Kipling


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