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Bernard Cornwell słynne cytaty

„Do Cadarn przybędą dwaj królowie, ale będzie tam władał człowiek, który królem nie jest. Martwi zostaną sobie poślubieni, zagubiony zostanie odnaleziony, a miecz będzie na gardle dziecka.”

Bernard Cornwell

Postać: Nimue
Trylogia arturiańska, Nieprzyjaciel Boga

„Większość z nas jednak obawia się chaosu i dlatego próbujemy wprowadzić porządek. Kiedy jednak panuje porządek, nie potrzebujemy już bogów. Gdy wszystko jest uporządkowane i na swoim miejscu, nie zdarza się nic nieoczekiwanego. Jeżeli wszystko rozumiesz, to nie ma miejsca na czary. Wzywasz bogów tylko wtedy, kiedy jesteś zagubiony i wylękniony. Oni jednak lubią być wzywani, czują się bowiem wtedy potężni, i dlatego właśnie chcą, żeby panował chaos.”

Bernard Cornwell

Postać: Derfel
Trylogia arturiańska, Nieprzyjaciel Boga

„Ser, Derfel. Czyżbyś nie dosłyszał? Mam ochotę na ser. Mieliśmy jakiś. Był zawinięty w płótno. A gdzie moja laska? Człowiek tylko głowę położy, żeby się nieco zdrzemnąć, i już ktoś kradnie jego laskę? Gdzie podziała się uczciwość? Cóż to za okropny świat. Nie ma sera, nie ma uczciwości i nie ma laski.”

Bernard Cornwell

Postać: Merlin
Trylogia arturiańska, Nieprzyjaciel Boga

„Nie miażdży się muru tarcz rozsądkiem i umiarem, lecz boskim huraganem szaleństwa i wyciem na ustach.”

Bernard Cornwell

Trylogia arturiańska
Źródło: Excalibur, tłum. Paweł Korombel

„Życie to igraszka bogów i próżno szukać sprawiedliwości. Trzeba nauczyć się śmiać, powiedział mi kiedyś [Merlin], bo inaczej można zapłakać się na śmierć.”

Bernard Cornwell

Postać: Derfel
Trylogia arturiańska, Zimowy monarcha

„Są takie momenty w naszym życiu, kiedy wydaje się, że nic się nie dzieje, kiedy dym nie zdradza płonących mieścin i gospodarstw, i kiedy nie ma dużo śmierci, przez którą przelewamy łzy. Nauczyłem się nie ufać tym czasom, ponieważ gdy na świecie panuje pokój, ktoś inny planuje wojnę.”

Bernard Cornwell książka Death of Kings

There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if world is at peace then it means someone is planning war. (ang.)
Postać: Uthred
Death of Kings

„Bogowie nienawidzą porządku – burknął [Merlin]. – Porządek, Derfel, niszczy bogów, bogowie zatem muszą zniszczyć porządek.”

Bernard Cornwell

Trylogia arturiańska, Nieprzyjaciel Boga

„Nadchodzą ciężkie czasy. Wszystko co dobre, stanie się złe, a co złe jeszcze gorsze.(…) Czasem myślę, że bogowie z nas kpią. Rzucają naraz wszystkie kości, żeby sprawdzić jak skończy się ta gra.”

Bernard Cornwell

Postać: Nimue
Trylogia arturiańska, Zimowy monarcha

„Lecz [Artur] zapomniał o Merlinie. Druid był starszy, mądrzejszy, i bardziej wyrafinowany niż Artur, i to on dowiedział się o Kotle. Zamierzał go znaleźć, a gdyby mu się to udało, magia Kotła rozlałaby się po Brytanii niczym trucizna. Był to Kocioł z Clyddno Eiddyn. To był Kocioł, który rozwiewał ludzkie marzenia. Artur zaś, mimo całej swojej praktyczności, był marzycielem.”

Bernard Cornwell

Trylogia arturiańska, Nieprzyjaciel Boga

Bernard Cornwell: Cytaty po angielsku

“"You've never heard of Paul Revere?" "No." "Lucky man, Sharpe. He called my father a traitor, and our family called Revere a traitor, and I rather think we lost the argument."”

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Captain Thomas Leroy, and Captain Richard Sharpe, p. 81
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Company (1982)

“Good plain soldiering wins wars. Doing mundane things well is what counts.”

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Colonel Sir Barnaby Moon, p. 11
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fury (2006)

“A charge of knights was supposed to be thundering death on hooves, a flail of metal driven by the ponderous weight of men, horses and armor, and properly done, it was a mass maker of widows.”

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Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest

Narrator, p. 338
The Grail Quest, The Archer's Tale/Harlequin (2000)

“In the short time I've known you, Richard, I've noticed you possess a lamentable tendency to put on shining armor and look for ladies to rescue. King Arthur, God rest his soul, would have loved you. He'd have had you fighting every evil knight in the forest.”

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Captain Michael Hogan, p. 254
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Havoc (2003)

“"We asked for them in February. It's June now; they must be coming." "They've been saying that about Christ for eighteen hundred years."”

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Major Richard Sharpe and Major General Nairn
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Regiment (1986)

“"I'm a Soldier, not a bloody clerk! I fetch bloody forage, count bloody shovels, and take punishment drills. It's yes, sir, no, sir, can I dig your latrine, sir, and it's not bloody soldiering!" "It is bloody soldiering! What the hell else do you think soldiering is? Do you think you can win a war without forage? Or without shovels? Or, God help us, without latrines? That is soldiering! Just because you've been allowed to swan about like a bloody pirate for years doesn't mean you shouldn't take your turn at real work."”

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Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and Major Michael Hogan, p. 114
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Company (1982)

“Let me tell you about the English War Bow, Joscelyn. It is a simple thing, med of yew, a peasant's tool, really. My huntsman can use one, but he is the only man in Berat who has ever mastered the weapon. Why do you think that is? I'll tell you anyway. It takes years, Joscelyn, many years to master the yew bow. Ten years? Probably that long, and after ten years a man can send an arrow clean through armor at two hundred paces. Splat! A thousand ecus of man, armor, and weaponry fallen to a peasant's bow. And it isn't luck, Joscelyn. My huntsman can put an arrow through a bracelet at a hundred paces. He can pierce mail coat at two hundred. I've seen him put an arrow through an oak door at a hundred and fifty, and the door was three inches thick!”

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Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest

The Count of Berat, p. 111
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)

“He had an inspiration and went to the Quinta's kitchen and stole two large tins of tea. He reckoned it was time Kate did something for her country and there were few finer gestures than donating good China tea to riflemen.”

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Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 136
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Havoc (2003)

“I doubt I called him illegitimate, sir. I wouldn't use that sort of word. I probably called him a bastard.”

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Captain Richard Sharpe, p. 136
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)

“They were German hussars and they streamed out of the dunes leaving a trail of dust, their drawn blades glittering.”

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Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Prey (2001)

“Arthur Wellesley had waited six years for this moment. He was twenty-nine years old and had begun to fear that he would never see battle, but now, at last, he would discover whether he and his regiment could fight, and so he filled his lungs to give the order that would start the slaughter.”

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Narrator, p. 28
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Tiger (1997)

“Sharpe's sword was lucky. There was a soldier's goddess and her name was Fate and she had liked the sword Harper made for Sharpe. The Kligenthal was stained with the blood of friends, with the torture of flayed priests, and the beautiful sword contained not luck, but evil.”

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Narrator, p. 312
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)

“Sir Thomas was a sentimental man. He loved Soldiers. He had once thought all men who wore the red coat were rogues and thieves, the scourings of the gutters, and since he had joined the army he had discovered he was right, but he had also learned to love them. He loved their patience, their ferocity, their endurance, and their bravery.”

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General Thomas Graham, p. 234
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fury (2006)

“We take what we want … we don't pay our enemies for food.”

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Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)

“Our duty, Richard, is to be decorative and stay alive long enough to be promoted. But no one expects us to be useful! Good God! A junior officer being useful? That'll be the day.”

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Ensign Roderick Venables, p. 20
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fortress (1999)

“Look after him, Lieutenant. An army isn't made of it's officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.”

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Colonel Jean Gudin, p. 353
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Tiger (1997)

“Your friend Will is a good man, too, but I fear he's no longer an archer." "It would have been better, I sometimes think-" "If he had died? Wish death on no man, Thomas, it comes soon enough without a wish."”

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Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest

Mordecai and Thomas of Hookton, p. 352
The Grail Quest, Vagabond (2002)

“It is not wise, I think, to mix private revenge with war." "Of course it's not wise, but it's bloody enjoyable. Enjoying yourself, Sergeant?”

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<br/k> "Never been happier, sir."
Lieutenant Jorge Vicente, Captain Richard Sharpe, and Sergeant Patrick Harper, p. 161
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)