Rudyard Kipling Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Rudyard Kipling quotes, Rudyard Kipling sayings, and Rudyard Kipling proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

One cannot resist the lure of Africa. Rudyard Kipling
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. Rudyard Kipling
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. Rudyard Kipling
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. Rudyard Kipling
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards Rudyard Kipling
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. Rudyard Kipling
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green. Rudyard Kipling
Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack. Rudyard Kipling
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells. Rudyard Kipling
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore. Rudyard Kipling
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven’t had any tea for a week… The bottom is out of the Universe. Rudyard Kipling
I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan. Rudyard Kipling
All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! Rudyard Kipling
I have a dream - a dreadful dream -A dream that is never done.I watch a man go out of his mind, and he is My Mother's Son. And no one knows when he'll get well So, there he'll have to be, and, 'spite of the beard in the looking-glass, I know that man is me! Rudyard Kipling
The toad beneath the harrow knows exactly where each tooth-point goes; tThe butterfly upon the road preaches contentment to that toad. Rudyard Kipling
Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, the children follow the butterflies, and in the sweat of their upturned faces, slash with a net at the empty skies. Rudyard Kipling
As swiftly as a reach of still water is crisped by the wind, the rock-strewn ridges and scrub-topped hills were troubled and alive with armed men. Rudyard Kipling
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. Rudyard Kipling
If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings,/ And never breathe a word about your loss. Rudyard Kipling
I've taken my fun where I've found it, / An' now I must pay for my fun, / For the more you 'ave known o' the others / The less will you settle to one. Rudyard Kipling
Before we lose the word / That bids new worlds to birth, / Needs must we loosen first the sword Of Justice upon earth / Or else all else is vain / Since life on earth began / And the spent world sinks back again / Hopeless of God and Man. Rudyard Kipling
But, in the valley of the Gauri, men / Beneath the shadow of the big new dam, / Relate a foolish legend of the flood, / Accounting for the little loss of life. Rudyard Kipling
He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Rudyard Kipling
Five and twenty ponies, / Trotting through the dark— / Brandy for the Parson, / 'Baccy for the Clerk; / Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, / Watch the wall, my darling, while the / Gentlemen go by! Rudyard Kipling
Where, blue as any peacock's neck, the Tyrrhene Ocean shines, You'll go where laurel crowns are won, but--will you e'er forget. Rudyard Kipling
Hast thou given a peacock goodly wings, To please his foolishness? Sit down at the heart of men and things, Companion of the Press! Rudyard Kipling