Rudyard Kipling quotes

Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, renowned for works such as "The Jungle Book" and "Kim." His stories have captivated readers of all ages with their vivid imagination and cultural insight. He remains one of the most influential figures in English literature. Here are 270 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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

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

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

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Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War.

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. (Rudyard Kipling)

I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.

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

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

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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

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

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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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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. (Rudyard Kipling)

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

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

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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa Baa Baa We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa Yah Bah.

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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay.

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Rudyard Kipling

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: December 30, 1865
Died: January 18, 1936
Quotes count: 270
Wikipedia: Rudyard Kipling

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