George Whyte-Melville



George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878) was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field.

Quotes

 * 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