Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Funny how the new things are the old things."
-Rudyard Kipling

"There's no jealousy in the grave."
-Rudyard Kipling

"If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."
-Rudyard Kipling

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."
-Rudyard Kipling

"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
-Rudyard Kipling in Quotations quotes.

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
-Rudyard Kipling in History quotes.

"They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."
-Rudyard Kipling

"All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again!"
-Rudyard Kipling

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
-Rudyard Kipling

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son!"
-Rudyard Kipling

"Every woman knows all about everything."
-Rudyard Kipling

"A man's mind is won't to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."
-Rudyard Kipling

"There's nothing so contagious in a boat as rivets going."
-Rudyard Kipling

"There is no sin greater than ignorance."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."
-Rudyard Kipling in Gardens quotes.

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