War Lord Quotes

“I had fought so long and so hard for my home. It had been stolen from me when I was a child, and I had fought the length and breadth of Britain to regain it.
And now I must fight for Bebbanburg again. We would ride for home.”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord

“All men have enemies, otherwise they're not men”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord

“So what do we do?” Finan asked. “We ride down there,” I said, easing my way back from the crest, “we smile politely, and tell the stupid bastard that he’s our prisoner.”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord

“I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred, and his father was also called Uhtred, and they were all lords of Bebbanburg. I am that too, though these days folk call me the Lord of the North. My lands stretch from the wind-beaten North Sea to the shores facing Ireland and, though I am old, my task is to stop the Scots coming south into the land we have learned to call Englaland”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord

“Yet a little country in a big land has a small future. I knew that. To our north was Constantine’s Alba, which we called Scotland, and Constantine feared the Saxons to our south. The Saxons and the Scots were both Christians, and Christians tell us that their god is love, and we must love one another and turn the other cheek, but when land is at stake those beliefs fly away and swords are drawn.”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord

“And in that great hall of the gods I will meet so many men that I once fought, whom I killed, and we shall feast together and watch the middle-earth beneath us and see men fight as we once fought, and so the world will go on till Ragnarok’s chaos engulfs it.”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord

“A man does not go into battle without fear.”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord

“It is a book of truths, that money and power are not the right ambitions of a virtuous man, but that justice, charity, and humility will bring you contentment.”
― Bernard Cornwell, War Lord