Bernard Cornwell

“We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Why do we fight?" he asked. "Because we were born.”

— 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

“Shun epic verse.”

— Bernard Cornwell

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

— Bernard Cornwell

“Serpent-Breath was in my hand and anger in my soul.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“The war was between the Danes and Wessex. My war was with Odda the Younger, and I knew I was driven by…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwise why would we be here?…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Religion makes strange bedfellows.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!”

— Bernard Cornwell

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

— Bernard Cornwell

“different ways. Some to Spain, others to”

— Bernard Cornwell

“The poets, when they speak of war, talk of the shield wall, they talk of the spears and arrows flying, of the…

— Bernard Cornwell

“There’s war between the gods, Uhtred, war between the Christian god and our gods, and when there is war in Asgard the…

— Bernard Cornwell

“The first stone, thrown by Hellgiver, crashed through the roof of a dyer's house close to St Brieuc's church and took off…

— 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

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

— Bernard Cornwell

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

— Bernard Cornwell

“It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it, betray for it…

— Bernard Cornwell

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

— 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

Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot…

— 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

“Were the Romans Christians?” I asked him, remembering my curiosity at the Roman farm. “Not always,” Ravn said. “They had their own…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Fate is inexorable.”

— Bernard Cornwell