“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.”

— Rudyard Kipling · Wisdom quote

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.”

— RUDYARD KIPLING

Poet, novelist and Nobel laureate · 1865 – 1936

Rudyard Kipling was an English poet and storyteller born in Bombay, India, whose works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the poem 'If—' (1910), repeatedly voted among Britain's favourite poems. A journalist in India as a young man, he drew on the British Empire's landscapes and soldiers for his ballads and tales. In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, and still its youngest recipient.

More quotes by Rudyard Kipling · Browse all quotes on QuotePlace

More like this