Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless…

“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

“Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Wyrd bi ful aræd.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“‎"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

“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

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

— Bernard Cornwell

“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

“Calix meus inebrians.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“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

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

— Bernard Cornwell

“You will tell him that Uhtred of Bebbanburg is in a mood to kill.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“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

“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

“Instinct is everything.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“If you can master me, that look seemed to say, then you can master whatever else this wicked world might bring. I can see…

— Bernard Cornwell