Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin..

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised..

The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. C….

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it phy….

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothin….

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore..

I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review ….

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg..

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create..

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins..

We are a nation of shop keepers..

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spec….

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend th….

Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at r….

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all..