Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNever look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
-
-
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
RUDYARD KIPLING