Bernard Cornwell

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

— Bernard Cornwell

“Skin the colour of chestnuts”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Morena como as sombras.”

— Bernard Cornwell

We all suffer from dreams

— Bernard Cornwell

“Calix meus inebrians.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Instinct is everything.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Fate is inexorable.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Wyrd bi ful aræd.”

— Bernard Cornwell

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

— Bernard Cornwell

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

— Bernard Cornwell

“Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Don't give me your Christian shit about forgiveness.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“different ways. Some to Spain, others to”

— Bernard Cornwell

You know what circumcision is, Private?

— Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

— Bernard Cornwell

“So, in the morning light, where they flapped in the drying wind, the bear and the star defied the Saxons.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“To ask another man’s blessing is simply to avoid taking the responsibility.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Yet to complain of the world’s unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes…

— Bernard Cornwell

“St George!’ the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“A man whose house is burning to the ground does not carry water to his neighbour’s fire,”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned…

— Bernard Cornwell

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

— Bernard Cornwell

“Shit!” Evelgold added. “What?” Hook asked, alarmed. “I just stepped in some.” “That’s supposed to bring you luck,” Hook said. “Then I’d…

— Bernard Cornwell

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions…

— Bernard Cornwell

“What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the…

— Bernard Cornwell

“I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.' 'Of course they can.' 'I should like to hear your…

— Bernard Cornwell

“- Nós queremos a fidelidade nas pessoas que amamos, senhora, então não é óbvio que elas a queiram em nós? A fidelidade…

— Bernard Cornwell

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale…

— Bernard Cornwell

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with…

— Bernard Cornwell

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Shall I tell you what happened?’ I asked. ‘I died, and died without a sword in my hand, so I was sent…

— Bernard Cornwell

“King Edmund of East Anglia is now remembered as a saint, as one of those blessed souls who live forever in the…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Poor Uther. He believed that virtues are handed down through a man's loins! What nonsense! A child is like a calf; if…

— Bernard Cornwell

“I sovrani deboli sono una maledizione in terra, tuttavia i nostri giuramenti sono fatti ai sovrani, ragionai; se non facessimo giuramenti, non…

— Bernard Cornwell

“How many’s that?” I asked the shepherd. “Jiggit and mumph, lord,” he said. “Is that enough?” “It’s enough, lord.” “Kill the rest…

— Bernard Cornwell

“I put my hands over Saint Cuthbert's fingers and I could feel the big ruby ring under my own fingers, and I…

— Bernard Cornwell

You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was…

— Bernard Cornwell

“It was while he was on the tower that Robbie came to the rampart beneath. 'I want you to look at this,'…

— Bernard Cornwell