Bernard Cornwell Quote

You bastard!' he shouted. He was quick. No warrior stays alive by being slow.

Cnut Longsword had near killed me with his blade Ice-Spite and it was small consolation that Serpent-Breath had sliced his throat in the same heartbeat that his sword had broken a rib and pierced my l...

Earsling,' a harsh voice challenged me from beside the Wheatsheaf's heart. 'What rancid demon brought you here to spoil my day?' I stared. And stared. Because the last person I had ever expected to se...

All you need to know, boy, Finan growled, is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.

Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.

Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the overlapping shields, the helmets, the glint of axes and spears and swords, and you know you must go i...

I'm in pain all the time,' I said, 'and if I gave into it then I'd do nothing.