“ St George!’ the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help. Bernard Cornwell
“ I was still screaming at the enemy, promising them death. I was Thor, I was Odin, I was the lord of battle. Bernard Cornwell
“ He was loose in his enemy’s rear, he was angry, and he was ready to give the bastards a taste of hell on earth. Bernard Cornwell
“ But I hated Alfred. I hated him for humiliating me at Exanceaster when he had made me wear a penitent's robe and crawl on my knees. Nor did I think of him as my king. He was a West Saxon and I was a N… Bernard Cornwell
“ Besides, as I have never tired of telling my Christian followers, we pagans rarely persecute Christians. We believe there are many gods, so we accept another man's religion as his own affair, while Ch… Bernard Cornwell
“ What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. Bernard Cornwell
“ You need mending? We all do. When we are young it is the spirit that breaks, and when we are old it is the body. Bernard Cornwell
“ They’re mean bastards, those monks, I said. I was supposed to deliver a weekly cartload of firewood to Saint Rumwold’s, but that was a duty I ignored. The monks could cut their own timber. Who was Rum… Bernard Cornwell
“ Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew? Bernard Cornwell
“ I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life... Bernard Cornwell
“ I envy your Christian God. He is three and He is one, He is dead and He is alive, He is everywhere and He is nowhere, and He demands that you worship Him, but claims nothing else is worthy of worship.… Bernard Cornwell
“ — Mas o que é que você faria com o Graal?— Eu iria usá-lo.— Para quê?— Para livrar o mundo do pecado.— Seria um trabalho notável, mas nem Cristo conseguiu realizá-lo.— Você pára de eliminar ervas dani… Bernard Cornwell
