Memorable Quotes and quotations from Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936)


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

Rudyard Kipling -
- Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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 - The Eye of Allah (1926)
- Every woman knows all about everything.

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

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

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

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 - With the Night Mail (1909)
- Funny how the new things are the old things.

Rudyard Kipling - As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
- 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 -
- We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.