Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Most popular Rudyard Kipling Quotes
![Love like ours can never die! - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/41/20941A-love-like-ours-can-never-die-rudyard-kipling.png)
Love like ours can never die!
![You win some and you lose some. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/85/7985A-you-win-some-and-you-lose-some-rudyard-kipling.png)
You win some and you lose some.
![It's clever, pretty . . . but is it art? - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/45/9845A-its-clever-pretty-but-is-it-art-rudyard-kipling.png)
It's clever, pretty . . . but is it art?
![Everyone is more or less mad on one point. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/59/35359A-everyone-is-more-or-less-mad-one-point-rudyard-kipling.png)
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
![Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/44/34944A-literature-is-a-splendid-mistress-but-bad-wife-rudyard-kipling.png)
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
![One who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/16/10816A-one-who-rebukes-the-world-is-rebuked-by-world-rudyard-kipling.png)
One who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world.
![The female of the species is more deadly than the male. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/82/24582A-the-female-of-the-species-is-more-deadly-than-male-rudyard-kipling.png)
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
![Words are of course, most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/43/16543A-words-are-of-course-most-powerful-drug-used-by-mankind-rudyard-kipling.png)
Words are of course, most powerful drug used by mankind.
![And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/03/1903A-and-a-woman-is-only-a-woman-but-good-cigar-rudyard-kipling.png)
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
![All the people like us are We,
And everyone else is They. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/20/50720A-all-the-people-like-us-are-we-everyone-else-is-rudyard-kipling.png)
All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They.
![Deeper than speech our love, stronger than life our tether. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/86/3286A-deeper-than-speech-our-love-stronger-than-life-our-tether-rudyard-kipling.png)
Deeper than speech our love, stronger than life our tether.
![A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/71/24571A-a-womans-guess-is-much-more-accurate-than-mans-certainty-rudyard-kipling.png)
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
![Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/25/42225A-words-are-of-course-the-most-powerful-drug-used-by-rudyard-kipling.png)
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
![Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/75/51675A-fill-the-unforgiving-minute-with-sixty-seconds-worth-distance-run-rudyard-kipling.png)
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
![The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/48/53548A-the-first-condition-of-understanding-a-foreign-country-is-smell-rudyard-kipling.png)
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
![I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/48/6148A-i-always-prefer-to-believe-the-best-everybody-it-saves-rudyard-kipling.png)
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.
![Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/79/10279A-youth-had-been-a-habit-of-hers-so-long-that-rudyard-kipling.png)
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
![We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/88/35988A-were-all-islands-shouting-lies-to-each-other-across-seas-rudyard-kipling.png)
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
![If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/76/29576A-if-you-can-meet-with-triumph-disaster-treat-those-two-rudyard-kipling.png)
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.
![Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/27/41227A-borrow-trouble-for-yourself-if-thats-your-nature-but-dont-rudyard-kipling.png)
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
![He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/09/38509A-he-wrapped-himself-in-quotations-as-beggar-would-enfold-himself-rudyard-kipling.png)
He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
![Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/56/39856A-never-praise-a-sister-to-a-sister-hope-your-compliments-rudyard-kipling.png)
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
![I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/78/20978A-i-never-made-a-mistake-in-my-life-at-least-rudyard-kipling.png)
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
![The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but there needs a very clever woman to manage a fool! - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/27/9027A-the-silliest-woman-can-manage-a-clever-man-but-there-rudyard-kipling.png)
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but there needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!
![Such a land [British Columbia] is good for an energetic man. It is also not so bad for the loafer. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/17/15117A-such-a-land-british-columbia-is-good-energetic-man-it-rudyard-kipling.png)
Such a land [British Columbia] is good for an energetic man. It is also not so bad for the loafer.
![If You can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,... you'll be a Man, my son. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/00/19600A-if-you-can-keep-your-head-when-all-about-you-rudyard-kipling.png)
If You can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,... you'll be a Man, my son.
![Though I've belted you and flayed you, by the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/97/8997A-though-ive-belted-you-and-flayed-you-by-livin-gawd-rudyard-kipling.png)
Though I've belted you and flayed you, by the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
![Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/77/35777A-take-my-word-for-it-the-silliest-woman-can-manage-rudyard-kipling.png)
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
![Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/79/31079A-fiction-is-truths-elder-sister-obviously-no-one-world-knew-rudyard-kipling.png)
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story.
![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 quote.](/img/q/35/38435A-i-keep-six-honest-serving-men-they-taught-me-all-rudyard-kipling.png)
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.
![I keep six honest serving men...they taught me all I know; their names are: what and why and when and how and who and where. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/69/469A-i-keep-six-honest-serving-menthey-taught-me-all-i-rudyard-kipling.png)
I keep six honest serving men...they taught me all I know; their names are: what and why and when and how and who and where.
![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—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/34/43234A-if-you-can-fill-the-unforgiving-minute-with-sixty-seconds-rudyard-kipling.png)
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—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
![For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State,
They arrive at their conclusions—largely inarticulate.
Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none:
But sometimes in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/39/22539A-for-undemocratic-reasons-and-for-motives-not-state-they-arrive-rudyard-kipling.png)
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, They arrive at their conclusions—largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none: But sometimes in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done.
![The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/72/33572A-the-individual-has-always-had-to-struggle-keep-from-being-rudyard-kipling.png)
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
![Savings represent much more than mere money value. There are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it. - Rudyard Kipling quote.](/img/q/00/53600A-savings-represent-much-more-than-mere-money-value-there-are-rudyard-kipling.png)
Savings represent much more than mere money value. There are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much trouble.