He was a prolific English poet and author wrote The Jungle Book (1894) and a masterful short story writer for his portrayals of the people. He celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, history, and culture of his times. As the 20th century began, Kipling saw the height of his professional career. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
(1865-1936)
– Rudyard Kipling Quotes –
I have always felt the menacing darkness of tropical eventides, as I have loved the voices of night-winds through palm or banana leaves, and the song of the tree-frogs.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors.
~ Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
~ Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
~ Rudyard Kipling
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
~ Rudyard Kipling
A man’s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
~ Rudyard Kipling
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
~ Rudyard Kipling
