Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… you’ll be a Man, my son.
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterward.
The strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
I am responsible for what I said. I am not responsible for what you understood.
The wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandu and the crimes of Clapham.
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.
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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.
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim.
I had six honest serving men; they taught me all I knew. Their names were: Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why.
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago…
Just think—what would happen to the deuce or two of us If we lost our heads, and passion humped us— Every rival scandal-loving journal shouting: ‘Hear ’em rip!’
You think you may, but you never can tell.
And ‘fate’ is just the same sort of five-fingered glove as ‘luck.’
If you make a man over-powerful, you put a weapon into his hand, which he, as likely as not, will turn against you.
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
The true education, the true individuality that all men strive after, is not their own but the accidental.
For tack and tackle when you’re on and off the seas.
What is so wild as words are? I could fell a pine at every sentence.
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say.
Furthermore, we have not suffered any system or development to grow up among us without applying to it a speedy scalar by way of castration.
Yet there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth.
And, which is more, you’ll be a Man, my son!
Do not strike at once, O hero!
The kindness done by the just surely earns the favour of the God.
You used words I had taught you and brought my own teaching to a head.
Physiology, hygiene, and anatomy are the sciences of a virgin continent.
Thats ‘is style! One piece one purchaser and no cuttin’ or divvyin’.”
Oh, mother and wife of a King, speak through the door of brass.
He would call out learning at a penny a line.
But ‘ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an’ the Colonel’s compliments, An’ ‘e thinks ‘e’s robbed of something, but ‘e don’t know wot it is.
Them feet in ancient time. Walk upon England’s mountains green?
The sin is heaped for vengeance. The sin is come to be payed.
So you must take the goods the gods provide you and fit your temper to the song the old gods use to guide you.
And a tribe is only a word for a hundred huts.
What do they hear the Children cry?
And we tear up and sink what we sell— And we buy anew and break— And the Gods of th’ Market-Grounds sniff us—and ask us: ‘How do ye earn your bread?’
Ask from your brother alien; hitch your wagon to a star.
But we, we dream to our glory, and the rifles go—ambition enspells.