“If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.” Rudyard Kipling Mother
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” Rudyard Kipling OldRap
“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.” Rudyard Kipling Fire
“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
“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.” Rudyard Kipling Desire
“If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!” Rudyard Kipling HighLoveMother
“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'” Rudyard Kipling Old
“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 DevilEvil
“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 BrainOld
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.” Rudyard Kipling NatureTrouble
“Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.” Rudyard Kipling Alone
“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.” Rudyard Kipling Old
“And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.” Rudyard Kipling
“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” Rudyard Kipling BeautyInsane
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.” Rudyard Kipling BestLieTrouble
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” Rudyard Kipling PowerWordsWisdomMankindDryg
