734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger's nose till he is clear of Asia again

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of marriage

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?