The Last Kingdom Series #1-6 Quotes

“A country is its history, bishop, the sum of all its stories. We are what our fathers made us, their victories gave us what we have, and you would make me leave my descendants a tale of humiliation? You want men to tell how Wessex was made a laughing stock to howling heathens? That is a story, bishop, that would never die, and if that tale is told then whenever men think of Wessex they will think of a Princess of Wessex paraded naked to pagans. Whenever they think of England, they will think of that!”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“Fate is inexorable. It grips us like a harness.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“frightened”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation and the Danes understood that. Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“We are not climbing Jacob’s ladder to some heavenly perfection, but stumbling downhill towards Ragnarok.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“To protect the honour of the king’s sister, of course,”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“Children are easily swayed by religion, which is why it is a good thing that most eventually grow into sense.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“Men are cruel,’ I said, ‘and the gods made us like themselves,”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“We cut off their long hair, for I liked to caulk my ships’ planks with the hair of slain enemies,”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6