Kipling Quotes
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
— Rudyard Kipling
One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.
— Rudyard Kipling
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
— Rudyard Kipling
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
— Rudyard Kipling
...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.
— Michael Powell
We be of one blood, ye and I
— Rudyard Kipling
I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not.
— Rudyard Kipling
Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.
— Rudyard Kipling
An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
— Rudyard Kipling
As the dawn comes up like thunder.
— Rudyard Kipling
Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
— Rudyard Kipling
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
— Rudyard Kipling
four tumbling, squealing cubs,
— Rudyard Kipling
He will be our friend for always and always and always.
— 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
color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle
— Rudyard Kipling
All we have of freedomAll we use or know
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago — Rudyard Kipling
Now I shall go far and far into the North,playing the Great Game — Rudyard Kipling
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. — Rudyard Kipling
I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly.
— Rudyard Kipling
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
— Rudyard Kipling
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
— Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
— Rudyard Kipling
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
— Rudyard Kipling
Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
— Rudyard Kipling
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
— Rudyard Kipling
If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ...
— Rudyard Kipling
God help us for we knew the worst too young.
— Rudyard Kipling
You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.
— Rudyard Kipling
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
— Rudyard Kipling
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
— Rudyard Kipling
Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to
— Rudyard Kipling
![Kipling Quotes By Jorge Luis Borges: Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/kipling-quotes-by-jorge-luis-borges-632845.jpg "Kipling Quotes By Jorge Luis Borges: Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's]")
Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
— Rudyard Kipling
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
— Rudyard Kipling
I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.
— Rudyard Kipling
Where are the fish, though?""In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb. — Rudyard Kipling
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ...
— Rudyard Kipling
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
— Rudyard Kipling
We be of one blood, thou and I -
— Rudyard Kipling
It's clever, but is it art?
— Rudyard Kipling
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
— Rudyard Kipling
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
— Rudyard Kipling
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
— Rudyard Kipling
elephant's trumpeting
— Rudyard Kipling
I have eaten your bread and salt.I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine. — Rudyard Kipling
Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting,
— Rudyard Kipling
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted.
— Rudyard Kipling
To hear is one thing, to know is another.
— Rudyard Kipling
Hear what little Red-Eye saith: Nag, come up and dance with death!
— Rudyard Kipling
speak - a thing he would never have dared to do
— Rudyard Kipling
Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. The Lama in Kim
— Rudyard Kipling
Cross that rules the Southern Sky!Stars that sweep, and turn, and fly
Hear the Lovers' Litany: -
'Love like ours can never die! — Rudyard Kipling
They are fools who kiss and tell'Wisely has the poet sung.
Man may hold all sorts of posts
If he'll only hold his tongue. — Rudyard Kipling
The meaning of my star is war.
— Rudyard Kipling
Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool.
— Rudyard Kipling
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
— Rudyard Kipling
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
— Rudyard Kipling
To each his own fear';
— Rudyard Kipling
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
— Rudyard Kipling
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
— Rudyard Kipling
Burmese babies - fat, little, brown little divils, as
— Rudyard Kipling
Only the keeper seesthat,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods — Rudyard Kipling
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
— Rudyard Kipling
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
— Rudyard Kipling
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue
— Rudyard Kipling
If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
— Rudyard Kipling
It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare. — Rudyard Kipling
Your Gods and my Gods - do you or I know which are the stronger? - Native Proverb.
— Rudyard Kipling
I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me.
— L.M. Montgomery
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
— Rudyard Kipling
(Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)
— Rudyard Kipling
The Guns, Thank God, The Guns ...
— Rudyard Kipling
When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.
— Rudyard Kipling
Let them fall Mowgli, they are only tears.
— Rudyard Kipling
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
— Rudyard Kipling
For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.
— Rudyard Kipling
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
— Rudyard Kipling
Monkey People? They
— Rudyard Kipling
Promised his love to keep her quiet - that he had never
— Rudyard Kipling
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
— Rudyard Kipling
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
— Rudyard Kipling
Favouritism governed kissage,Even as it does in this age. — 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
For Kim did nothing with an immense success.
— Rudyard Kipling
He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World
— Rudyard Kipling
Know too much, young un," said Billy, "and that is one
— Rudyard Kipling
Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?
— Rudyard Kipling
The flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ...
— Rudyard Kipling
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
— Rudyard Kipling
