Top 21 Quotes by Robert Falcon Scott

Each man in his way is a treasure.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.