49 Quotes by 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.

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

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

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

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

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

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.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

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