“ Do you ever read the scriptures?Every day, I said enthusiastically, not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel.She smiled, amused. What a barbarian you are! Bernard Cornwell
“ Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, ap… Bernard Cornwell
“ I have kept the faith, Planchard. -Then you are the only man who has Planchard said, and it is an heretical faith.-They crucified Christ for heresy Vexille said, so to be named a heretic is to be one… Bernard Cornwell
“ Instinct is a strange thing. You cannot touch it, feel it, smell it, or hear it, but you must trust it, and that night, as we listened to the slap of the waves and the creak of the oars, I was as cert… Bernard Cornwell
“ Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the blood like fire it is a real madness. It is joy! All the terror is swept away, a man feels he could l… Bernard Cornwell
“ A lord who does not distribute wealth is a lord who will lose the allegiance of his men, Bernard Cornwell
“ I forget your name, I said.Most people spew shit from their arse, he retorted, you manage it with your mouth.Your mother gave birth through her arse, I said, and you still reek of her shit. Bernard Cornwell
“ The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch Bernard Cornwell
“ The first sound was the bowstrings, the snap of five thousand hemp cords being tightened by stressed yew, and that sound was like the devil’s harpstrings being plucked. Then there was the arrow sound,… Bernard Cornwell
“ Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa. Bernard Cornwell
“ Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear claws… Bernard Cornwell
“ All you need to know, boy, Finan growled, is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins. Bernard Cornwell
“ People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left. I have seen folk dying and known there is nothing to be done, and I am asked to go becau… Bernard Cornwell
“ We should know who they are, I said, before we kill them. That's just being polite. Bernard Cornwell
“ You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for th… Bernard Cornwell
“ He has a mouth, lord, Gerbruht said.I envy him, I said.Envy him, lord?Most of us have to lower our trews to shit. 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… Bernard Cornwell
