“Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters.” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“I wanted to see a pattern in the strands of life. In the end I found one, and it had nothing to… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“How much of our earth has been wet by blood because of jealousy! And at the end of life, what does it… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he stared at them the… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“They laughed, but I was melancholy. The remnants of Rome always make me sad, simply because they are proof that we slide inexorably towards… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“"He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“A battle in the shield wall. It's smelling your enemy's breath while he tries to disembowel you with an axe, it's blood and shit… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“And we screamed. We screamed our war cry, our shout of slaughter, our joy of being men in battle who are driven by terror.” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just a few… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
“An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood pouring down… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share
