Author: Robert Falcon Scott

Quotes

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

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

- Robert Falcon Scott

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

- Robert Falcon Scott

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

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

- Robert Falcon Scott

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

- Robert Falcon Scott

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

- Robert Falcon Scott

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

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

- Robert Falcon Scott

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

- Robert Falcon Scott

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

- Robert Falcon Scott

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