“ Então Guinevere quebrou o juramento do matrimônio - disse Nimue. - Você acha que ela foi a primeira? Ou acha que isso a torna uma prostituta? Nesse caso a Britânia está cheia de prostitutas até a bord… Bernard Cornwell
“ Erkanwald) That is what you do, Lord Uhtred! You beat a child into obedience! A child learns by suffering pain, by being beaten, and that pregnant child must learn her duty. God wills it! Praise God!… Bernard Cornwell
“ Sharpe wanted to be ready and so he untied the rag from his musket’s lock and stuffed it into the pocket where he kept the ring Mary had given him. The ring, a plain band of worn silver, had belonged… Bernard Cornwell
“ It was the year 878, I was twenty-one years old and believed my swords could win me the whole world. I was Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the man who had killed Ubba Lothbrokson beside the sea and who had spil… Bernard Cornwell
“ If he was still alive, I thought. I knelt to him, then to Osferth, and I left. We walked in silence to a cloistered courtyard where the last roses of summer had dropped their petals on the damp grass.… Bernard Cornwell
“ I sovrani deboli sono una maledizione in terra, tuttavia i nostri giuramenti sono fatti ai sovrani, ragionai; se non facessimo giuramenti, non avremmo leggi, e se non avessimo leggi, ci sarebbe solo a… Bernard Cornwell
“ Are you familiar with Saint Cuthman? Alfred asked me cheerfully.No, lord.He was a hermit, Alfred said. We were riding north, keeping on the high ground with the swamp to our left. His mother was cripp… Bernard Cornwell
“ Are all Dumnonian warriors so ill-mannered? she asked the table at large in an acid voice.You want warriors to be courtiers? Celwin retorted brusquely. You'd send your precious poets to kill the Frank… Bernard Cornwell
“ And on my conscience, he said, I will for ever bear the weight of all those men who died in a hopeless cause. Two thousand against five thousand? How can 1 justify leading so few against so many?You k… Bernard Cornwell
“ And Eoferwic, I thought, was where my story had all begun. Where my father had died. Where I had become the Lord of Bebbanburg. Where I had met Ragnar and learned of the ancient gods. Bernard Cornwell
“ Galahad - mi diceva - è innamorato della perfezione ed è troppo schizzinoso per amare una donna in carne e ossa. Ama le donne come concetto, ma non sopporta la loro realtà, le malattie, il dolore, il… Bernard Cornwell
“ You're giving up the hunt for de Taillebourg?' Thomas asked. He had learned the priest's name from Robbie. 'No.' Robbie still had his head back as he stared at the magnificence of the transept's ceili… Bernard Cornwell
“ The joy of it. The sword joy. I was dancing with joy, joy seething in me, the battle joy that Ragnar had so often spoken of, the warrior joy. If a man has not known it, then he is no man. It was no ba… Bernard Cornwell
“ Language is now my trade, boy, because I have become a skald.’ ‘A skald?’ ‘A scop, you would call me. A poet, a weaver of dreams, a man who makes glory from nothing and dazzles you with its making. An… Bernard Cornwell
“ It is a terrible thing, Beocca said to me. War, it is an awful thing.I said nothing. I thought it was glorious and wonderful.The shield wall is where men die, Beocca said, and he kissed the wooden cro… Bernard Cornwell
“ It had happened to me once, long ago. I had been named Osbert by my father, who was called Uhtred, but when my elder brother, also Uhtred, was slaughtered by the Danes my father had renamed me. It is… Bernard Cornwell
“ If prayers could make a man into a Christian then I would be a saint ten times over by now.Destiny is all. And now, looking back, I see the pattern of my life’s journey. It began in Bebbanburg and too… Bernard Cornwell
