
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? —
Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. —
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

Hear what little Red-Eye saith: Nag, come up and dance with death! —
Rudyard Kipling

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. The Lama in Kim —
Rudyard Kipling

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

elephant's trumpeting —
Rudyard Kipling

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen. —
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

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

Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to —
Rudyard Kipling

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ... —
Rudyard Kipling

You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. —
Rudyard Kipling

One cannot resist the lure of Africa. —
Rudyard Kipling

We be of one blood, thou and I - —
Rudyard Kipling

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied. —
Rudyard Kipling

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb. —
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
![Rudyard Quotes By Jorge Luis Borges: Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] Rudyard Quotes By Jorge Luis Borges: Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/rudyard-quotes-by-jorge-luis-borges-632845.jpg)
Unappreciated because too many of his [
Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists. —
Jorge Luis Borges

God help us for we knew the worst too young. —
Rudyard Kipling

speak - a thing he would never have dared to do —
Rudyard Kipling

To hear is one thing, to know is another. —
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

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. —
Rudyard Kipling

Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting, —
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

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. —
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

Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people, he said to himself, —
Rudyard Kipling

It's clever, but is it art? —
Rudyard Kipling

Promised his love to keep her quiet - that he had never —
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

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

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns ... —
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

(Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi) —
Rudyard Kipling

If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't! —
Rudyard Kipling

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

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. —
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 flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ... —
Rudyard Kipling

Your Gods and my Gods - do you or I know which are the stronger? - Native Proverb. —
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 sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods —
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

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

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue —
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 been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. —
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

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

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid. —
Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone. —
Rudyard Kipling

Monkey People? They —
Rudyard Kipling

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

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. —
Rudyard Kipling

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. —
Rudyard Kipling

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money. —
Rudyard Kipling

Favouritism governed kissage,
Even as it does in this age. —
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

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