“ It was while he was on the tower thatRobbie came to the rampart beneath. 'I want you to look at this,' Robbie called up to him, and flourished a newly painted shield. 'You like it?'Thomas peered down… Bernard Cornwell
“ It is not difficult to be a lord, a jarl, or even a king, but it is difficult to be a leader.Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring-givers, the go… Bernard Cornwell
“ I shook my head. ‘Killing isn’t woman’s work,’ I said. ‘Why not?’ she asked. ‘We give life, can’t we take it too? Bernard Cornwell
“ I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.''Of course they can.''I should like to hear your reasons. But show me your urine first.''You said I was cured,' Thomas protested. '… Bernard Cornwell
“ He’ll fight like a bull,’ I said, ‘and he’s honest. But does he think like a wildcat? Bernard Cornwell
“ And that was what the Christians had been doing in their church, consecrating their wizards by making boys into black-clothed priests who would spread their filth further, and my son, my eldest son, w… Bernard Cornwell
“ Thought folk were buried there? They are! And their treasures! So the dragon guards the hoard. That’s what dragons do. Bury gold and you hatch a dragon, see? Bernard Cornwell
“ You know your trouble? You think too much. I’ve never known a happy man who thought too much. Thinking just complicates affairs. Life’s like jumping a bad fence on a good horse, the more responsibilit… Bernard Cornwell
“ You are sheep, they are wolves. Your blood will soak the hillsides, your skin will make saddles, your flesh will feed pigs! Bernard Cornwell
“ Words are like breath, she said. You say them and they’re gone. But writing traps them. You could write down stories, poems. Bernard Cornwell
“ Você nunca, nunca deve contar seus crimes aos outros, a não ser que sejam tão grandes a ponto de não poderem ficar escondidos, e nesse caso descreva-os como política ou ação de Estado. Bernard Cornwell
“ The sword was called Caledfwlch, which means ‘hard lightning’ though Igraine prefers to call it Excalibur Bernard Cornwell
“ So a good man can be a bad Christian?I suppose so.Then a bad man, I said, can be a good Christian? Bernard Cornwell
