Rudyard Kipling Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: England
- Born: Dec 30, 1865
- Died: Jan 18, 1936
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King". His poems include "Mandalay", "Gunga Din", "The Gods of the Copybook Headings", "The White Man's Burden", and "If—". He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
history
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
God & Mother's Day
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
beauty & women
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
gardening
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
being alone & travel
It's clever, but is it Art?
art
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
nature
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
being alone
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
patience
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
equality
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
best
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
failure