Rudyard Kipling Quotes

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

We be of one blood, ye and I

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

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.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

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

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

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

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

As the dawn comes up like thunder.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

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?'

No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

There's no jealousy in the grave.

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.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.