George Whyte-Melville
Appearance
George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878) was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field.
Quotes
[edit]- When you sleep in your cloak there's no lodging to pay.
- Boots and Saddles.
- For everything created
In the bounds of earth and sky
Has such longing to be mated,
It must couple or must die.- Like to Like.
- Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace alone.- Chastelar.
- The life upon which youth fancies itself entering is very different from the life which age refuses to acknowledge it is on the eve of quitting.
- The Autobiography of Captain Digby Grand, p. 672 of Fraser's Magazine, vol. 46, December 1852
- Then drink, puppy, drink, and let ev’ry puppy drink,
That is old enough to lap and to swallow;
For he’ll grow into a hound, so we’ll pass the bottle round,
And merrily we’ll whoop and we’ll holloa.- "Drink, Puppy, Drink", chorus