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

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

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

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

We are a nation of shop keepers.

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.