Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

British - Explorer | June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912

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

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

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We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

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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.

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