He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Rudyard Kipling Quotes

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors...

Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

And How and Where and Who.

And How and Where and Who.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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

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

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures...

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures...

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil

You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil

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

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

I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody - it saves so much...

I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody - it saves so much...

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

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

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane...

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane...

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult...

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult...

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.