Rudyard Kipling

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

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

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

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'