Rudyard Kipling – 14 Quotes

14 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

– Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

– Rudyard Kipling

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’

– Rudyard Kipling

It’s clever, but is it Art?

– 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

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

– Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

– Rudyard Kipling

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

– Rudyard Kipling

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

– Rudyard Kipling

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

– Rudyard Kipling

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

– Rudyard Kipling

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.

– Rudyard Kipling

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

– Rudyard Kipling

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

– Rudyard Kipling