Quotes About Cornwell

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

Pope Pius XII was certainly not "Hitler's pope," as John Cornwell's intentionally provocative book title would have it.

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

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

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

Harlequin , probably derived from the old French Hellequin : a troop of the devil's horsemen.

Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.

I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

And thus Berg Skallagrimmrson entered my service. Fate is inexorable. I was not to know it, but I had just made Alfred's dream of Englaland come true.

superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).

Frederick the Great once said that the greatest crime in war is not to make the wrong decision, but to make no decision.' Again the Prince gestured at Sharpe with the brandy glass. 'You should remember that axiom, Sharpe!' Sharpe did not even know what an axiom was, but he nodded respectfully. 'I will, sir.

Mrs. Cornwell smiled, and Terri knew and hated that smile. It was the same one her own mother used when she thought Terri was showing some interest in a member of the opposite sex. A smug, I-told-you-so, isn't-that-sweet smile. Terri turned to Brian and felt a confusing surge of sympathy for the kid plus a determination not to show the slightest interest in him. Neither feeling gave her any idea what to say to him, however.