Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
– Rudyard Kipling
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
– Rudyard Kipling
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
– Rudyard Kipling
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
– Rudyard Kipling
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
– Rudyard Kipling
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
– Rudyard Kipling
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
– Rudyard Kipling
And How and Where and Who.
– Rudyard Kipling
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.
– 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?
– 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.
– Rudyard Kipling
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
– Rudyard Kipling
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
– Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
– Rudyard Kipling
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
– Rudyard Kipling
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
– Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.
– Rudyard Kipling
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
– Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
– Rudyard Kipling
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.
– Rudyard Kipling
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
– Rudyard Kipling
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
– Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
– Rudyard Kipling
I gloat! Hear me gloat!
– Rudyard Kipling
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.
– Rudyard Kipling
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
– Rudyard Kipling
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
– Rudyard Kipling
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!
– Rudyard Kipling
It's clever, but is it Art?
– Rudyard Kipling
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.
– Rudyard Kipling
Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
– 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
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.
– Rudyard Kipling
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
– Rudyard Kipling
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.
– Rudyard Kipling
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
– Rudyard Kipling
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
– Rudyard Kipling
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
– Rudyard Kipling
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.
– Rudyard Kipling
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
– Rudyard Kipling
On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay.
– Rudyard Kipling
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
– 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!
– 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.
– Rudyard Kipling
Every woman knows all about everything.
– Rudyard Kipling
There's no jealousy in the grave.
– Rudyard Kipling
Funny how the new things are the old things.
– Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
– Rudyard Kipling
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
– Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
