Quotes by : Bernard Cornwell

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that....

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

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my....

This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...

So we rode through a broken gate in a broken wall into a broken town, and it was dusk, and the day's....

Poor Uther. He believed that virtues are handed down through a man's loins! What nonsense! A child is....

It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.

That joy. That madness. The gods must feel this way every moment of every day. It is as if the world....

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

Some had hurled spears first. Those spears thumped into our shields, making them unwieldy, but it hardly....