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.'

An ijjit grinnin' in a dream -- for shells an' parrakeets, An' walkin'-sticks o' carved bamboo an' blowfish stuffed an' dried -- Fillin' my bunk wi' rubbishry the Chief put overside. Rudyard Kipling
By day the dipping house-flag and by night the rocket's trail. As the sheep that graze behind us so we know them where they hail. Rudyard Kipling
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling
What of the hunting, hunter bold? / —Brother, the watch has long and cold. / What of the quarry ye went to kill? / —Brother, he crops in the jungle still. / Where is the power that made your pride? / —Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. / Where is the haste that ye hurry by? / —Brother, I go to my lair to die. Rudyard Kipling
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. 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 you will settle to one. Rudyard Kipling
A fool there was and he made his prayer / (Even as you and I!) / To a rag and a bone and hank of hair / (We called her the woman who did not care) / But the fool he called her his lady fair— / (Even as you and I!) Rudyard Kipling
The female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling
The female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling
Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself.' Rudyard Kipling
If you love me as I love you, / What knife can cut our love in two? Rudyard Kipling
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- / Treason has much, but we, Mother, thy sons have more! / From the whine of a dying man, from the snarl of a wolf-pack freed, / Turn, and the world is thine. Mother, be proud of thy seed! / Count, are we feeble or few? Hear, is our speech so rude? / Look, are we poor in the land? Judge, are we men of The Blood? Rudyard Kipling
Buy a puppy and you will get the most devoted love in the world. Rudyard Kipling
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; / And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke. Rudyard Kipling
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears Rudyard Kipling
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. Rudyard Kipling
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling
Our loves are not given but only lent, / At compound interest of cent percent. / Though it is not always the case, I believe, / That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve: / For, when debts are payable, right or wrong, / A short-time loan is as bad as along. Rudyard Kipling
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood. Rudyard Kipling
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; / And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, / But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, / Shall draw the thing as he sees It for God of Things as they are. Rudyard Kipling
I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way, / Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray. / If these are added, I rejoice---if not, I shall not mind, / So long as I have leave and choice to meet my fellow-kind. / For as we come and as we go (and deadly-soon go we!) / The people, Lord, Thy people, are good enough for me! Rudyard Kipling
The American does not drink at meals a sensible man should. Indeed he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes rice a day. Rudyard Kipling
I am earth, overtaking all things except words. They alone escape me. Therefore, I lie heavy on their makers. 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