George Whyte-Melville

thumb|right|"The novelist of Society"Whyte-Melville as caricatured by James Tissot in Vanity Fair, September 1871 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 createdIn the bounds of earth and skyHas such longing to be mated,It must couple or must die. Like to Like. Ah, better to love in the lowliest cotThan 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 External links Category:1821 births Category:1878 deaths Category:Novelists from Scotland Category:Poets from Scotland Category:Victorian novelists