Rudyard Kipling Quotes

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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

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.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible — and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

My heart is so tired

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.