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.

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Chicago Quotes, Cities Quotes

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the...

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the...

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty...

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty...

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...

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...

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

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

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

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...

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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...

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

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

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

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

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

And How and Where and Who.

And How and Where and Who.

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

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...

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.