Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back — For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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

It’s clever, but is it Art?

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o’ mine o mother o’ mine.

For it’s “guns this” and “guns that,” and “chuck ’em out, the brutes,” But they’re the “Savior of our loved ones” when the thugs begin to loot.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

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

San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.