George Whyte-Melville

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

"The novelist of Society"
Whyte-Melville as caricatured by James Tissot in Vanity Fair, September 1871

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

• 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