George Whyte-Melville Quotes

“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.”

George Whyte-Melville

The Autobiography of Captain Digby Grand, p. 672 of Fraser's Magazine, vol. 46, December 1852 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0013488754;view=1up;seq=680

“Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace alone.”

George Whyte-Melville

Chastelar.

“For everything created
In the bounds of earth and sky
Has such longing to be mated,
It must couple or must die.”

George Whyte-Melville

Like to Like.

“When you sleep in your cloak there ’s no lodging to pay.”

George Whyte-Melville

Boots and Saddles.