Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

14 quotes

As an English writer and poet, Rudyard Kipling earned a lasting place in the canon of memorable quotations. The range of their thinking — from Women to Art — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Discover 17 of Rudyard Kipling's most memorable quotes, ranging across Women, Art, Alone, Travel, and Patience. As Rudyard Kipling put it: "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Gardening

All Quotes by 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

Women

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Equality

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

— Rudyard Kipling

God

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Alone

“It's clever, but is it Art?”

— Rudyard Kipling

Art

“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Patience

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Nature

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Beauty

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

— Rudyard Kipling

History

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Best

“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Alone

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Gardening

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

— Rudyard Kipling

Failure

“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

Art