Sword of Kings Quotes

“Everything ends. Summer ends. Happiness ends. Days of joy are followed by days of sorrow. Even the gods will meet their end in the last battle of Ragnarok when all the evil of the world brings chaos and the sun will turn dark, the waters will drown the homes of men, and the great beamed hall of Valhalla will burn to ashes. Everything ends.
I drew Serpent Breath and walked towards the scouts.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“Anger leads to savagery,' I said curtly, 'and to stupidity.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“A man without honour has no reputation”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“Everything ends. Summer ends. Happiness ends. Days of joy are followed by days of sorrow. Even the gods will meet their end in the last battle of Ragnarok when all the evil of the world brings chaos and the sun will turn dark, the black waters will drown the homes of men, and the great beamed hall of Valhalla will burn to ashes. Everything ends.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“We just like to improve it with a touch of harmless sorcery.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“If you're powerless, lord, then why be ashamed of what the strong inflict on you? It's for them to be ashamed.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“A man without honor has no reputation”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“If a man breaks an oath he has no honour”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“I remember Ravn, the blind poet and father to Ragnar, often telling me that courage was like a horn of ale. “We begin with a full horn, boy,” he had told me, “but we drain it. Some men drain it fast, maybe their horn was not full to begin with, and others drain it slowly, but courage lessens as we age.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“Mehrasa, a dark-skinned girl who came from the lands beyond the Mediterranean. She had married Father Cuthbert and now lived in Bebbanburg”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings

“Wyrd bið ful ãræd,” I told Finan. Fate is inexorable.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings