Rudyard Kipling quotes

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.

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

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

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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

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

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

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

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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?'

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

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

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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

It's clever, but is it Art?

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