Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

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

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

We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

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

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting … if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; … yours is the earth and everything that’s in it…

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

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.

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.

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!

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