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

Meaning of the quote

The quote suggests that female creatures, such as animals or people, can be more dangerous or powerful than the males of the same species. This might be because the females have to protect their young or fight for resources to survive. The quote is saying that sometimes the females are tougher, smarter, or more aggressive than the males, which can make them more deadly or threatening.

About Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was a renowned English writer who was born in British India and is best known for his Jungle Book series, short stories, and poems. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, becoming the first English-language writer to receive the prestigious honor.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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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?”

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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

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San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

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