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

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

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

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

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

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

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

And How and Where and Who.

And How and Where and Who.

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

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

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

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the...

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the...

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

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

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

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

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

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

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...

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

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

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 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......

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

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

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

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

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a...

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a...