Quotes by
Rudyard Kipling |
1865-1936 , English writer, Nobel 1907
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894) and Kim (1901).
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Quotations
| • | For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. 6 |
| • | I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. 4 |
| • | If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same. 4 |
| • | The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence… 4 |
| • | We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. 3 |
| • | Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife. 3 |
| • | The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen. 3 |
| • | We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. |
| • | A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition. |
| • | If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price. |
| • | At twenty, the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. |
| • | The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. |
| • | And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. |
| • | It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. |
| • | Everyone is more or less mad on one point. |
| • | For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. |
| • | Four things greater than all things are, —Women and Horses and Power and War. |
| • | Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. |
| • | Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are. |
| • | Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. |
| • | The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible–and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. |
| • | God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. |
| • | He travels the fastest who travels alone. |
| • | He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. |
| • | The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. |
| • | I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man. |
| • | We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. |
| • | I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. |
| • | He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. |
| • | If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. |
| • | Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. |
| • | Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade. |
| • | The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. |
| • | I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. |
| • | What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue. |
| • | Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. |
| • | A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. |
| • | A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. |
Quotes in Verse
| • | I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When and How and Why and Who. |
| • | Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die. |
