Rudyard Kipling quotes

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. (Rudyard Kipling)
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling
Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War.
Rudyard Kipling
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. (Rudyard Kipling)
I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.
Rudyard Kipling
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. (Rudyard Kipling)
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
Rudyard Kipling
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa Baa Baa We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa Yah Bah.
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