Bernard Cornwell Quotes

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• You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
• Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've…
• What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail…
• Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.
• ‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They…
• You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was all said cheerfully.…
• Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
• Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
• I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know…
• Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.
• The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of…
• But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I…
• Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must…
• Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.
• We all suffer from dreams
• Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
• Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
• I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it.
• It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
• Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green…

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