“ How does a lawyer lie? With passion, Mr. Starbuck, and with a self-inflicted belief, albeit temporary, that the facts he is reciting are the very stuff of God’s own truth. Bernard Cornwell
“ His men howled with him. They were caught up in Baird’s madness. At this hour, under the fire of the sun and emboldened by the arrack and rum they had drunk in their long wait in the trenches, the red… Bernard Cornwell
“ Guinefort had been a dog and, so far as Thomas’s father knew, the only animal ever to be canonized. The beast had saved a baby from a wolf, then been martyred by his owner, who thought the dog had eat… Bernard Cornwell
“ Fight well, he said distantly, and remember you are Englishmen!Welshmen, someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the churc… Bernard Cornwell
“ But that was a notion as wispy as the high thin clouds that were being driven away by a brisk wind, and behind those wispy clouds was a wall of dark, tumultuous cloud that promised snow. Bernard Cornwell
“ And I was so tempted that night in Cippanhamm’s royal church. There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world’s evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will b… Bernard Cornwell
“ Abel Becket had never seen as much of his wife's breasts as Mrs. Loring saw fit to present to the world. Bernard Cornwell
“ World rotted as we slid from light into darkness, getting ever nearer to the black chaos in which this middle world would end and the gods would fight and all love and light and laughter would dissolv… Bernard Cornwell
“ All the Danish leaders, had carved into our shield wall with his great war ax, I had faced him, beaten him, and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead who feast and swive in Odin’s corp… Bernard Cornwell
“ We live in a world where the strongest win, and the strongest must expect to be disliked. Bernard Cornwell
“ We have to stop them here, Sir Augustus, and I don't think you're the man to do it. Have you ever defended against a French attack?'The head shook miserably. 'No.''The drums never stop, Colonel, at le… Bernard Cornwell
“ We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it. Bernard Cornwell
“ Tomorrow, he shouted, you do not fight for me! I fight for you! I fight for Wessex! I fight for your wives, for your children and your homes! Tomorrow we fight and, I swear to you on my father's grave… Bernard Cornwell
“ They laughed, but I was melancholy. The remnants of Rome always make me sad, simply because they are proof that we slide inexorably towards the darkness. Once there was light falling on marbled magnif… Bernard Cornwell
“ There, ahead of me, was the enemy.I love the Danes. There are no better men to fight with, drink with, laugh with or live with. Yet that day, as on so many others of my life, they were the enemy and t… Bernard Cornwell
“ The sun flashed off the wet blades, splinters of light, then the oars dipped, were tugged, and the beast-headed boats surged, and I stared entranced. Bernard Cornwell
