Rudyard Kipling quotes

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

“Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

“Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

“Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. ”

— Rudyard Kipling