Quotes by : Bernard Cornwell

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose....

He sounded pathetic and he knew it, but he had been driven to this humiliation by love. A woman can do....

But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim,....

So a good man can be a bad Christian?""I suppose so.""Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian?....

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

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

Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember....

Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades,....