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A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here. — Bernard Cornwell

We were dressed for war, and war was coming. — Bernard Cornwell

When a man must choose between nothing and everything he has small choice. — Bernard Cornwell

It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman. — Bernard Cornwell

She looked at Stiorra and grinned, and I wondered whether that was what the two girls had in common: bad fathers. — Bernard Cornwell

It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works. — 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

Only a fool leaves cash where a servant can find it,' he said. — Bernard Cornwell

The art of war," I told him, "is to make the enemy do your bidding. — Bernard Cornwell

This time, if God wills it, we shall replace him. A man bitten by a snake once does not let the snake live a second time. — Bernard Cornwell

Thousands!" Appah Rao's tone mocked the claim. "You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers. — Bernard Cornwell

Religion makes strange bedfellows. — Bernard Cornwell

Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters. — Bernard Cornwell

You should always plan your battles form the enemy's point of view. — Bernard Cornwell

The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history. — Bernard Cornwell

Someone wise, I forget who, said we must leave our children to fate. — Bernard Cornwell

We all suffer from dreams. — Bernard Cornwell

Once upon a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened. — Bernard Cornwell

Hengall the Warrior hated war. The business of life, he liked to say, is to plant grain, not blades. — Bernard Cornwell

When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed. — Bernard Cornwell

When you are up to your arse in shit there is only one thing to do. Attack. — Bernard Cornwell

had given an oath and honor binds us to paths we might not choose. — Bernard Cornwell

You know what circumcision is, Private? — Bernard Cornwell

ground, then drank some and fancied it — Bernard Cornwell

Thomas, I can pull down you're pants and point you downwind, but even with the Lord's help I can't pee for you. — Bernard Cornwell

I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own. — Bernard Cornwell

She is a woman, and what women want, they get, and if the world and all it holds must be broken in the getting, then so be it. — Bernard Cornwell

If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead. — Bernard Cornwell

For what?" the Lord of Douglas demanded. "For — Bernard Cornwell

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. — Bernard Cornwell

The Gods play games with us, but if we open ourselves then we can become a part of the game instead of its victims. — Bernard Cornwell

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. — Bernard Cornwell

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive. — Bernard Cornwell

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship. — Bernard Cornwell

So long as we remember names, so long those people live. — Bernard Cornwell

He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said.
"I envy him," I said.
"Envy him, lord?"
"Most of us have to lower our trews to shit. — Bernard Cornwell

But you can get arrows from the — Bernard Cornwell

There was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence. — Bernard Cornwell

So I do my duty," Sharpe said, "and land in the shit." "You have at last seized the essence of soldiering," Hogan said — Bernard Cornwell

She was as faithful as a morning mist, as hard as a sword-bayonet, and that, he thought, made her a suitable reward for a soldier. — Bernard Cornwell

Night was falling across the trampled rye. Nine thousand men had been killed or wounded in the fight for the crossroads, — Bernard Cornwell

Love's madness, swinging from ecstasy to despair in one wild second. — Bernard Cornwell

You don't buy a dog and bark yourself, — Bernard Cornwell

We pulled slow and steady through the darkness and we hammered the ears of the gods with prayers. — Bernard Cornwell

So, with no real plan for my future and content to let fate — Bernard Cornwell

He thinks with his heart, Uhtred,' Alfred said, 'not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head. — Bernard Cornwell

So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly. — Bernard Cornwell

The sword was called Caledfwlch, which means 'hard lightning' though Igraine prefers to call it Excalibur — Bernard Cornwell

Ignored Truslow, trusting instead in the Colonel's largesse. — Bernard Cornwell

This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war. — Bernard Cornwell

I was angry. I wanted blood in the dawn. — Bernard Cornwell

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up. — Bernard Cornwell

Instinct is everything. — Bernard Cornwell

They gave death with impunity as they followed a war-maddened Scotsman down an enemy wall that was sticky with blood. — Bernard Cornwell

Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end. — Bernard Cornwell

Writing is a solitary occupation. — Bernard Cornwell

His charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill. — Bernard Cornwell

The sight of that loveliness was enough to drive all sense from a man's head. — Bernard Cornwell

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man. — Bernard Cornwell

My son smiled. "You taught me well, Father."
"What did I teach you?"
"That a spear-point in a prisoner's liver is a very persuasive thing. — Bernard Cornwell

I was without a lord. I was outcast. I was free. I was going Viking. There — Bernard Cornwell

The rest merely requires common sense; it is like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is. — Bernard Cornwell

Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well. — Bernard Cornwell

Remember the old saying, my lady,' he said slyly. 'Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well. — Bernard Cornwell

Ensign Fitzgerald had somehow managed to get himself a jewelled sabre that he was now flashing around like a shilling whore given a guinea fan. — Bernard Cornwell

Why do we fight?" he asked.

"Because we were born. — Bernard Cornwell

He knew you were a warrior. He called you a brute. He said you were like a dog that attacks a bull. You had no fear because you had no sense. — 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

Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons. — Bernard Cornwell

The hall's door was framed by a pair of vast curved bones that had come from some sea monster. — Bernard Cornwell

Don't give me your Christian shit about forgiveness. — Bernard Cornwell

I paid him," Lawford said indignantly.
"If you want a job done properly," Sharpe said, "you do it yourself. Hell! — Bernard Cornwell

The rules were simple: trust no one, be ever watchful and if trouble came hit first and hit hard. It had worked for him so far. — Bernard Cornwell

Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers. — Bernard Cornwell

I wondered why the gods no longer came to earth. It would make belief so much easier. — Bernard Cornwell

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable). — Bernard Cornwell

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. — Bernard Cornwell

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

You do not swing in a shield wall, you stab. May the gods ever send me enemies who swing their blades. — Bernard Cornwell

The Tippoo should have killed you when he had the chance."
"We all make mistakes, sir. — Bernard Cornwell

Giving inspiration to a lawyer, Sharpe thought sourly, was like feeding fine brandy to a rat. — Bernard Cornwell

You're the son of a king,' I told him, 'and one day you might be a king yourself. Life and death will be your gifts, so learn how to give them, boy. — Bernard Cornwell

Start your killers young, before their consciences are grown. Start them young and they will be lethal. — Bernard Cornwell

So we all die?'
"No, no, no! We fight them!'
'How do you fight a dragon?'
'With prayer, boy, with prayer.'
'So we do all die — Bernard Cornwell

The crews of the Viking ships are Danish, Norse, Frisian, and Saxon. — Bernard Cornwell

No man wanted to face warriors like Finan in battle. — Bernard Cornwell

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Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing. — Bernard Cornwell

Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it. — Bernard Cornwell

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

You will tell him that Uhtred of Bebbanburg is in a mood to kill. — Bernard Cornwell

the rocketmen ran for cover. The missiles — Bernard Cornwell

Always fight the horse, not the rider. — Bernard Cornwell

There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it! — Bernard Cornwell

Hurry up and do nothing, that was the army's way of doing things. — Bernard Cornwell

When rumours fly, when false tales are being told, be the storyteller. — Bernard Cornwell

I knew a man who had a dumb wife. He was ever so happy. — Bernard Cornwell

Frenchman was tall and thin, with a lugubrious and tired face, but — Bernard Cornwell

Fate is inexorable. — Bernard Cornwell

Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect. — Bernard Cornwell