“You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.” This was all said cheerfully. “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 life's lessons.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Pelos ossos de Deus, Tom, o diabo fez um serviço ruim quando trepou com sua mãe.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Robin Hood’s Lament”?’ Every archer knew that tune.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“O mundo está apodrecendo. A Igreja é corrupta e os reis são fracos. Cabe a nós fazer um mundo novo, amado por Deus, mas para fazê-lo temos de destruir o velho. Temos de tomar o poder e depois dar o poder a Deus. É por isso que estamos lutando.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Harlequin, probably derived from the old French Hellequin: a troop of the devil’s horsemen.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Nondum amabam, et amare amabam.
(No amé, pero anhelaba amar)”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Be mad enough, his father once said, and they will either lock you away or make you a saint.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“St George!’ the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Father 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 from The Archer's Tale
“Where’s your bowstrings?’ Thomas asked, for the priest had neither helmet nor cap.
‘I looped them round my…well, never mind. It has to be good for something other than pissing, eh? And it’s dry down there.’ Father Hobbe seemed indecently cheerful.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Remember the old saying, my lady,” he said slyly. “Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
“Only a fool leaves cash where a servant can find it,' he said.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale
Bernard Cornwell
Born place: in London, England, The United Kingdom
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“You’ll say to yourself, I’m just an old man who is scared of life, but even more scared of dying. So I’m keeping drunk and hanging on to life at any price, and what of it?”
― Eugene O'Neill, quote from The Iceman Cometh
“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.”
― René Descartes, quote from Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
“To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment
“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion, or gave me ideas about what to do; other times, they calmed me so much that I would fall into a soothing sleep. My father used to say that her tales were better than the best medicine. Sighing, I burrowed into my mother's body like a child, knowing that the sound of her voice would be a balm on my heart.”
― Anita Amirrezvani, quote from The Blood of Flowers
“Lovely One"
Lovely one,
just as on the cool stone
of the spring, the water
opens a wide flash of foam,
so is the smile of your face,
lovely one.
Lovely one,
with delicate hands and slender feet
like a silver pony,
walking, flower of the world,
thus I see you,
lovely one.
Lovely one,
with a nest of copper entangled
on your head, a nest
the color of dark honey
where my heart burns and rests,
lovely one.
Lovely one,
your eyes are too big for your face,
your eyes are too big for the earth.
There are countries, there are rivers,
in your eyes,
my country is your eyes,
I walk through them,
they light the world
through which I walk,
lovely one.
Lovely one,
your breasts are like two loaves made
of grainy earth and golden moon,
lovely one.
Lovely one,
your waist,
my arm shaped it like a river when
it flowed a thousand years through your sweet body,
lovely one.
Lovely one,
there is nothing like your hips,
perhaps earth has
in some hidden place
the curve and the fragrance of your body,
perhaps in some place,
lovely one.
Lovely one, my lovely one,
your voice, your skin, your nails,
lovely one, my lovely one,
your being, your light, your shadow,
lovely one,
all that is mine, lovely one,
all that is mine, my dear,
when you walk or rest,
when you sing or sleep,
when you suffer or dream,
always,
when you are near or far,
always,
you are mine, my lovely one,
always.”
― Pablo Neruda, quote from The Captain's Verses
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