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

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.

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

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks...We've dumbed it down.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.