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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

“I do not approve of you, Thomas, and I do not approve of your woman, but nor can I approve of a Church that uses pain to bring the love of God to a sinful world. Evil begets evil, it spreads like a weed, but good works are tender shoots that need husbandry.”

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Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest

Abbott Planchard, p. 212
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)

“I think the Holy Grail is a dream that men have, a dream that the world can be made perfect. And if it existed, then we'd all know the dream can't come true.”

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Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest

Thomas of Hookton, p. 192
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)

“He was a soldier and he marched where he was ordered to march and he killed the king's enemies when he arrived. That was his job and the army was his home and he loved both even though he knew he would have to fight like a gutter-born bastard for every step of advancement that other men took for granted. And he knew too that he would never be prized for his birth or his wit or his wealth, but would only be reckoned as good as his last fight, but that thought made him smile. For Sharpe's last battle had been against the best soldier France had and Sharpe had drowned the bastard like a rat. Sharpe had won, Loup was dead, and it was over at last: Sharpe's battle.”

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Captain Richard Sharpe, p. 354
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)

“"It is you, sir?" "Sergeant Barret, isn't it?" "Yes, sir." "It is me" They bloody hung you, sir." "This army can't do anything right, Sergeant."”

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Sergeant Barret and Major Richard Sharpe, p. 273
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Honor (1985)

“The Grail is like God. It is everywhere, all around us, obvious, but we refuse to see it. Men think they can only see God when they build a great church and fill it with gold and silver statues, but all they need do is look. The Grail exists, Thomas, you just need to open your eyes.”

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Genevieve, p. 103
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)

“Here, in this filthy stench of powder smoke, he felt at home. Other men learned how to plough fields or to shape wood, but Sharpe had learned how to use a musket or rifle, sword or bayonet, and how to turn an enemy's flank or assault a fortress.”

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Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 69
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Rifles (1988)

“It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders.”

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Major Michael Hogan, p. 172
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)

“Take a man who has failed at everything, give him a final chance, show him trust, lead him to one success, and there is a sudden confidence that will lead to the next success. Soon they will believe they are unbeatable, and become unbeatable, but the trick was to have officers like Sharpe who kept on offering trust. Of course the Light Company missed him! He had expected great things of them and trusted them to win.”

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Sergeant Patrick Harper, p. 122
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Company (1982)

“If he had learned one thing as a Soldier it was that any decision, even a bad one, was better than none.”

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Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 130
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Rifles (1988)

“I've killed priests before, and another priest sold me an indulgence for the killings, so don't think I fear you or your Church. There's no sin that can't be bought off, no pardon that can't be purchased.”

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Sir William Douglas, to Bernard de Taillebourg of the Inquisition, p. 17
The Grail Quest, Vagabond (2002)

“We'll need all the officers we can get then, and then you'll get your chance. You might be a quartermaster now, but ten years from now you'll be leading a battalion, so just be patient.”

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

“This was the might of France, the pride of France, the tactic of the world's first conscript army, and this column, Clausel's counter-attack, ignored cold mathematical logic. It was not defeated by the line.”

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Narrator, p. 253
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)

“… a newly raised unit of young men fresh from the depots of France, and they were half-trained, ill disciplined, resentful of an Emperor who had marched them off to a war they mostly did not understand and, above all, hungry.”

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

“You may call me doctor. You won't, of course. You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn lifes lessons.”

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Doctor Mordecai
The Grail Quest, The Archer's Tale/Harlequin (2000)

“When God made the world he made the big plain just for the cavalry. It was firm, or would be when the sun had dried off the night's rain, and it was mostly level. The sabres could fall like scythes in the corn. The Arapiles, Greater and Lesser, God made for the gunners. From their summits, conveniently made flat so that the artillery could have a stable platform, the guns could dominate the plain. God had made nothing for the infantry, except a soil easily dug into graves, but the infantry were used to that.”

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Narrator, p. 234
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)

“You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.”

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Doctor Pickering, p. 133
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Trafalgar (2000)

“There are rules, orders, regulations, Sharpe, by which our lives are conducted. If we ignore those rules, burdensome though they may be, then we open the gates to anarchy and tyranny; the very things against which we fight!”

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Lieutenant Colonel Brian Windham, p. 104
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Company (1982)

“They were outnumbered, they were surrounded, yet no one had panicked, not one battalion had been caught deployed in column, and not one square had been rattled by the horse-men's proximity. The Light had saved the Seventh Division, and now it was saving itself with a dazzling display of professional soldiering. Pure drill was defeating French verve, and Massena's attack, which had swept around the British right flank with overwhelming force, had been rendered utterly impotent.”

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Narrator, describing the actions of the British Light Division during the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, p. 319
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)