367 Quotes by Bernard Cornwell

It's better than 9 to 5 because I'm my own boss so I can take off when I want to, and the dress code is non-existent and the commute is terrific.

In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the story-telling, and a good story transcends national boundaries.

The discrepancy is entirely based, I think, on the fact that I write best when I'm writing about what I know, and that is British history.

No, fate is difficult. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have choice?

We had to fight, because to decline battle was a defeat.

There is such joy in a good ship, and a greater joy to have the ship’s belly fat with other men’s silver. It is the Viking joy, driving a dragon-headed hull through a wind-driven sea towards a future full of feasts and laughter. The Danes taught me that and I love them for it.

You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Be mad enough, his father once said, and they will either lock you away or make you a saint.

Win your war, Lord Uhtred,” he said, “then take her away from us priests and give her lots of children. She’ll be happy, and one day she’ll be truly wise. That’s the women’s real gift, to be wise, and not many men have it.