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

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

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

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

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

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

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 than a gruesome foe.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

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

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

There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

Our dreams make us large.

I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Habit has a kind of poetry.