734 Quotes by 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.

It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding.

We had a kettle; we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven't had any tea for a week...The bottom is out of the Universe.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

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

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.