734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick, But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard; I've made the cinders fly, And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drin

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick.

This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.