Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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Bernard Cornwell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.
But Alfred could not live long. He was already an old man, well past forty years, and now he was looking to the future. He
She looked at Stiorra and grinned, and I wondered whether that was what the two girls had in common: bad fathers.
I ain't seen a herd the size of it, not even when the Scots drive the beeves down from Scotland to London.
And we screamed. We screamed our war cry, our shout of slaughter, our joy of being men in battle who are driven by terror.
This time, if God wills it, we shall replace him. A man bitten by a snake once does not let the snake live a second time.
Thousands!" Appah Rao's tone mocked the claim. "You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers.
The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.
The sun flashed off the wet blades, splinters of light, then the oars dipped, were tugged, and the beast-headed boats surged, and I stared entranced.
The church, we're to meet in the church. Do try to wipe that blood off your mail, Uhtred. We're an embassy!
They're frightened that we'll make a sally and kill them all," Ragnar said, "so they're going to sit there and try to starve us out.
He doesn't want to face Englishmen,' the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights
He needed to know it, see it, smell it, and survive it. I was training the boy not just to be a warrior, but to be a king.
I was just twenty-one and my name was known wherever men sharpened swords. I was a warrior. A sword warrior, and I was proud of it.
My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred.
Doubtless there were insanely frenzied warriors, but there is no evidence that lunatic nudists made regular appearances on the battlefield.
It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.
That dawn is seared on my memory, burnt there by the flames of a hall-burning. There was nothing we could do except watch.
Some Gods are wicked, Derfel. And besides, they have no duty to us, only we to them. Maybe it amused them?
So a good man can be a bad Christian?"
"I suppose so."
"Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian?
"I suppose so."
"Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian?
He was watching my eyes. A man who uses a sword with lethal skill always matches his opponent's eyes.
He was a startlingly handsome young man, and that, too, distracted him for girls were attracted to him like priests to gold.
That is why battles of the shield wall are slow to start. Men have to nerve themselves for the horror.
Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
A leader leads," Ragnar said, "and you can't ask men to risk death if you're not willing to risk it yourself.
Haesten.
If this world ever contained one worthless, treacherous slime-coated piece of human dung then it was Haesten.
If this world ever contained one worthless, treacherous slime-coated piece of human dung then it was Haesten.
And I must be nineteen by now, lord! Maybe even twenty?" "Eighteen?" I suggested. "I could have been married four years ago, lord!" We
I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.
Ensign Fitzgerald had somehow managed to get himself a jewelled sabre that he was now flashing around like a shilling whore given a guinea fan.
Start your killers young, before their consciences are grown. Start them young and they will be lethal.
So we all die?'
"No, no, no! We fight them!'
'How do you fight a dragon?'
'With prayer, boy, with prayer.'
'So we do all die
"No, no, no! We fight them!'
'How do you fight a dragon?'
'With prayer, boy, with prayer.'
'So we do all die
His charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill.
The rules were simple: trust no one, be ever watchful and if trouble came hit first and hit hard. It had worked for him so far.
An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.
Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods.
They gave death with impunity as they followed a war-maddened Scotsman down an enemy wall that was sticky with blood.
She was as faithful as a morning mist, as hard as a sword-bayonet, and that, he thought, made her a suitable reward for a soldier.
The sword was called Caledfwlch, which means 'hard lightning' though Igraine prefers to call it Excalibur