02UndatedIf they saw men swarming up the wall, if they saw the axes chopping at our shields on the wall’s top, then they would join the battle. Men want to be on the winning side.Bernard Cornwell / quote ↗
03UndatedFather Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In the name of the Father,’ he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, ‘and of the Son,’ Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man’s nose, ‘and of the Holy Ghost!Bernard Cornwell / quote ↗
04UndatedHe 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedWe should know who they are," I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.Bernard Cornwell / quote ↗
06UndatedDon't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.Bernard Cornwell / quote ↗
07UndatedWhat I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.Bernard Cornwell / quote ↗
