“ The rest merely requires common sense; it is like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is. Bernard Cornwell
“ The priests are like Offa, I said. They want us to be their dogs, well schooled, grateful and obedient, and why? So they can get rich. They tell you pride is a sin? You’re a man! It’s like telling you… Bernard Cornwell
“ The fear came then. The shield wall is a terrible place. It is where a warrior makes his reputation, and reputation is dear to us. Reputation is honour, but to gain that honour a man must stand in the… Bernard Cornwell
“ The Holy Grail, the most precious of all Christ’s bequests to man, lost these thousand years and more, and he could see it glowing in the sky like shining blood and about it, bright as the glittering… Bernard Cornwell
“ The Gods play games with us, but if we open ourselves then we can become a part of the game instead of its victims. Bernard Cornwell
“ The English chevauchée was a tactic to destroy a country’s power, to starve the lords of taxes, to burn their Bernard Cornwell
“ The Britons have never learned to love the Saxons. Indeed they hate us, and in those years when the last English kingdom was on the edge of destruction, they could have tipped the balance by joining G… Bernard Cornwell
“ Stow all the world’s evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction. Bernard Cornwell
“ So you settle to be a slave, eh? Yes, lord, no, lord, let me hold your prick while you piss all over me, lord? Bernard Cornwell
“ So Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld would decide our fate. They are not kindly women, indeed they are monstrous and malevolent hags, and Skuld’s shears are sharp. When those blades cut, they cause tears that… Bernard Cornwell
“ Silence. We like it when an audience is silent, when no one coughs, no one shuffles, no one cracks a nut, or uncorks an ale bottle with a sudden hiss. Silence means the play is working, and we have th… Bernard Cornwell
“ Remember the old saying, my lady, he said slyly. Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well. Bernard Cornwell
“ Quell'estate, secondo il nuovo computo degli anni che ci hanno insegnato i cristiani, era il 497 dopo la nascita di Cristo, ed era un'estate radiosa, splendente di sole.Artù era al vertice, Merlino si… Bernard Cornwell
“ Our ancestors, he went on after a while, took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they bui… 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 regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that s… Bernard Cornwell
“ Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared. 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 and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me, then… Bernard Cornwell
“ My banner was behind me and that banner would attract ambitious men. They wanted my skull as a drinking cup, my name as a trophy. They watched me as I watched them and they saw a man covered in mud, b… Bernard Cornwell
“ Meu estandarte estava atrás de mim, e atrairia homens ambiciosos. Eles queriam minha caveira como uma taça para beber, meu nome como troféu. Olhavam-me enquanto eu os olhava, e viam não um homem cober… Bernard Cornwell
