Quotes from book
Plain Tales from the Hills

Plain Tales from the Hills is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new."

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
On the Strength of a Likeness.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”
Three and—an Extra.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)