Rudyard Kipling Quotes That Will Inspire You To Think

Rudyare Kipling was born in Bombay, India, on 30 December 1865. In 1870, Kipling was taken back to England to stay with a foster family in Southsea and then go to boarding school in Devon. In 1882, He returned to India and worked as a journalist, writing poetry and fiction in his spare time. Books such as 'Plain Tales from the Hills' (1888) gained success in England, and in 1889 Kipling went to live in London. Kipling was an English writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is best known for his poems and stories set in India during the period of British imperial rule. Kipling died on 18 January 1936 and is buried at Westminster Abbey.

1. "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

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

3. "never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."

4. "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble"

5. "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!"

6. "If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

7. "For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

8. "I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me."

9. "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"

10. "I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who."

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

12. "The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else."

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

14. "There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."

15. "If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise."

16. "There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?" [For All We Have and Are]"

17. "I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages"

18. "How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can?"

19. "They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?"

20. "What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue"