Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

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.

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

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

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.

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

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

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

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.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

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