Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The quotations of
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet
1865–1936
44 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Women and Animals.
- Just So Stories (1902), The Elephant’s Child.
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.
- The Eye of Allah
He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
The Finest Story in the World (1893).I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much trouble.
- With the Night Mail
Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.Other works- The Female of the Species, Stanza 1 (1911).
For the colonel’s lady an’ Judy O’Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)- Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), Lispeth.
- Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
- Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
- Life’s Handicap (1891)
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).
