Quotes by Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

English writer

Lived from: 1865 - 1936

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 december 1865 Died: 18 january 1936

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  • Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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  • Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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  • For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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  • For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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  • Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
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  • God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
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  • He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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  • He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
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  • He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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  • Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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  • Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
    The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (1994) 314
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  • I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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  • I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
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  • If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
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  • If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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  • If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''
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  • If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man.
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  • If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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  • If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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  • Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
    The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2016) 747
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