Top 37 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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

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

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

It's clever, but is it Art?

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone.