Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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• He travels the fastest who travels alone. Alone
• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Distance
• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is… Call
• 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,… Art
• Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. Backwards
• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Deadly
• 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'… Follow
• He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Beggar
• 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… Accept
• A people always ends by resembling its shadow. Always Ends
• Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Grant
• Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Everyone
• A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. Him
• It's clever, but is it Art? Art
• Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Asia
• San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Beauty
• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. Body
• The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Condition
• Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in… Ball
• If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there… Except

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