Rudyard Kipling's Quotes

It's clever, but is it Art?

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling