The best Quotes by Bernard Cornwell

The best Quotes by Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell (born 23 February 1944) is an English-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of 13 novels about the making of England.

It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

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Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods.

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Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation. Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

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Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.

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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.

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Fear might work on a man, but confidence fights against fear.

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An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.

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War is fought in mystery. The truth can take days to travel, and ahead of truth flies rumor, and it is ever hard to know what is really happening, and the art of it is to pluck the clean bone of fact from the rotting flesh of fear and lies.

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Laughter in battle. That was what Ragnar had taught me, to take joy from the fight.

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What binds a man to his land? What power within allows him to give his life to preserve his land and the lives of the families who work it? It can only be love.

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Courage is finding the will to overcome your fear, nothing more.

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Revenge will not bring you peace, only death.

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Fear can be expelled with knowledge.

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An empty throne provokes more trouble than a weak king.

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A king must be a king on his own terms. He cannot be his father. He can only be himself.

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To fight, men need a lord who can lead them into battle without fear.

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Soon, all of the kings in England shall be kings of nothing.

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I do not seek battles. Battles just seem to seek me.

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A village can be rebuilt. A warrior can die only once.

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To advise a king is a great honor. But it can also be a curse.

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

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I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

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London. The beating heart of England.

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It's harder to hold a hand than hold a gun.

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Peace requires a steady hand.

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