Top 22 Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

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.

A man‘s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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

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.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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

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

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.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

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

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

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

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

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

It’s clever, but is it Art?

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!

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

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

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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