Rudyard Kipling Quotes

It’s clever, but is it Art?

— Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

— Rudyard Kipling

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

— Rudyard Kipling

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

— Rudyard Kipling

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

— Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— 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

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling
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