“ Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea. Bernard Cornwell
“ If the purpose of life was to be an unpredictable, murderous tyrant, then it would be easy to be godlike, but I suspected we had a different duty and that was to try to make the world better. Bernard Cornwell
“ If the Danes come, he spoke to Wulfhere, you must let me fight.You don't know how to fight.Then you must teach me. He slid Serpent-Breath back into the scabbard. Wessex needs a king who can fight, he… Bernard Cornwell
“ I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war. Bernard Cornwell
“ Every man over the age of twelve was expected to fight. They might not be trained warriors like the men I now led through the rising woodland, but they could hold a spear or throw a rock or swing an a… Bernard Cornwell
“ And not just any mail. My coat was of Frankish make and would cost a man more than the price of a warship. Sihtric had polished the metal with sand so that it shone like silver. The hem of the coat wa… Bernard Cornwell
“ And I must be nineteen by now, lord! Maybe even twenty? Eighteen? I suggested. I could have been married four years ago, lord! We Bernard Cornwell
“ An archbishop is important to the Christians, he knows more sorcery than ordinary priests, even more than the bishops, and he has more authority. I have met several archbishops over the years and ther… Bernard Cornwell
“ Abandoned the weapon because of its propensity to shatter the shoulders of the men pulling its trigger, but in Patrick Harper the seven-barreled gun had found a soldier capable of taming its brute fer… Bernard Cornwell
“ You’d do better to repair the fort walls,’ I said. ‘You think the Danes will come again, lord?’ he asked nervously. ‘The Danes always come again. Bernard Cornwell
“ Why do they put cows over the gates, sir?For the same reason we put images of a tortured man in our churches. Religion. You ask too many questions, Sharpe. Bernard Cornwell
“ Were the Romans Christians? I asked him, remembering my curiosity at the Roman farm. Not always, Ravn said. They had their own gods once, but they gave them up to become Christians and after that they… Bernard Cornwell
“ Step forward again, hold the shield steady. Peer over the top. Fear is screaming somewhere deep. Ignore it. You can smell the shit now. Shit and blood, the stench of glory. The enemy is more frightene… Bernard Cornwell
“ One of the things I can’t stand about Christians is their admiration of meekness. Imagine elevating meekness into a virtue! Meekness! Can you imagine a heaven filled only with the meek? What a dreadfu… Bernard Cornwell
“ I had not liked him. I had struggled against him and for him, I had cursed him and thanked him, despised him and admired him. I hated his religion and its cold disapproving gaze, its malevolence that… Bernard Cornwell
“ I had no idea what I was speaking of, but only knew I must sound confident. Fear might work on a man, but confidence fights against fear. Odda Bernard Cornwell
“ I can unbutton your breeches and I can point you down wind, but even with the Good Lord’s help I can’t piss for you. Bernard Cornwell
“ I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, and this is the tale of a blood feud. It is a tale of how I will take from my enemy what the law says is mine. And it is the tale of a woman and of her father, a king. He w… Bernard Cornwell
“ How anyone could endure three or four hours of chanting monks and ranting priests was beyond my understanding, just as it was beyond my understanding to know why bishops needed thrones. They would be… Bernard Cornwell
