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List of Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 289 inspiring quotes by Rudyard Kipling.

About Rudyard Kipling

  • Born: December 30, 1865
  • Died: January 18, 1936
  • Occupation: Writer
    • A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
    Men Mind Towers
    Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; but kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill man!
    Men Needs May
    We have learned to whittle the eden tree to the shape of a surplice peg, we have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. we know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, but the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; it's clever, but is it art?
    Dog Art Horse
    But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, amen.
    Angel Forever Hammers
    And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south with the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; four things greater than all things are women and horses and power and war.
    Horse War Puff
    Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
    Sleep Police Uniforms
    When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
    Hate Eye Light
    Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to eternity.
    Gentleman Eternity Delinquency
    And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, and some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.
    Rose Bud Fit
    No one as yet has approached the management of new york in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. no one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the american people, and lead to angry comparisons.
    New York Reflection Pigs
    If i were hanged on the highest hill, mother o' mine, o mother o' mine! i know whose love would follow me still mother o' mine, o mother o' mine!
    Mothers Day Mom Motherhood
    A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. one does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
    Fire Doe Pieces
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