Bernard Cornwell quote: "And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind."

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan...
BERNARD CORNWELL

They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
BERNARD CORNWELL

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make al...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 month...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to w...
BERNARD CORNWELL

In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the story-telling, and a ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Not sure what I'd so with a notebook other than swat flies. If I want a break I'd rather go down to ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

We have a gaff-rigged topsail cutter, which sounds much grander than she really is, but she's exquis...
BERNARD CORNWELL

And though I've lived in the States for over 25 years and am now an American citizen, I still hear B...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I took time off last year to sail the Atlantic, and if I got more opportunities for blue-water cruis...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacl...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum oc...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I don't have a mentor.
BERNARD CORNWELL

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I start early - usually by 5 am, and work through to 5 pm, with breaks for lunch, boring exercise, e...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacati...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. gover...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it.
BERNARD CORNWELL

The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill me...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. g...
BERNARD CORNWELL

I did a TV series for the British History Channel a few years ago and for a few weeks afterwards I w...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL

And what, by the by, is a yale?"
"A heraldic beast," Thomas explained.
The doctor sniffed....
BERNARD CORNWELL

Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes th...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the b...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much no...
BERNARD CORNWELL

We should know who they are," I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.
BERNARD CORNWELL

It will never end.
Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, f...
BERNARD CORNWELL

It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it...
BERNARD CORNWELL

But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to cla...
BERNARD CORNWELL

The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Exc...
BERNARD CORNWELL

We all suffer from dreams.
BERNARD CORNWELL

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...
BERNARD CORNWELL

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to w...
BERNARD CORNWELL

It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn...
BERNARD CORNWELL

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you...
BERNARD CORNWELL

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making be...
BERNARD CORNWELL

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, bu...
BERNARD CORNWELL

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Writing is a solitary occupation.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Television is a young person's medium.
BERNARD CORNWELL

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear think...
BERNARD CORNWELL

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
BERNARD CORNWELL

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains...
BERNARD CORNWELL

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field t...
BERNARD CORNWELL

The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch
BERNARD CORNWELL

He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said.
"I envy him," I said.
"Envy him, lord?"
"Most o...
BERNARD CORNWELL

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the characte...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I like to get to bed with a clear head.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I've been stalked.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I refuse to sit on my laurels.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tensi...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identific...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat fac...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize h...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, ...
JOHN CORNWELL

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their n...
JOHN CORNWELL

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your l...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibilit...
JOHN CORNWELL

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

He did it. We know he did it. This is about whether that was the sole, individual intervening cause ...
CARL CORNWELL

In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.
CARL CORNWELL

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.
CARL CORNWELL

God bless Brad Jones, he feels about as badly as he can feel. The first 30 days I represented him, I...
CARL CORNWELL

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

the case is far from closed.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

We've got a grudge on our shoulder. We're a lot better than what we're showing and we've got a real ...
DAVID CORNWELL

Everyone is doing forensics.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed...
JOHN CORNWELL

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trick...
JOHN CORNWELL

Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of im...
JOHN CORNWELL

Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote ...
JOHN CORNWELL

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

The Ripper case is not one to be conclusively solved by DNA or fingerprints, ... and in a way, this ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a...
BETSY CORNWELL

This has to do with the internal dynamic, with the hardship imposed by structural adjustments, a soc...
RICHARD CORNWELL

Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt ...
BETSY CORNWELL

Sager is kind of deceptive. He's got good feet, picks his holes well and is a good hitter. Morse is ...
RANDY CORNWELL

That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traf...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping ov...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

My ongoing investigation is far from an obsession, but an excellent opportunity to provide a platfor...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Both were cremated so fast. To this day, it really bothers me. One minute they were there; the next ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Because if somebody literally proves me wrong not only will I feel horrible about it, but I will loo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

They won't get a hotel room on the 25th floor. They know a ladder won't reach that high. So they sta...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Griffin previously leased a house in the San Diego area from a San Diego business...
DAVID CORNWELL

We didn't collectively come together to either start the game well or finish the game well.
DAVID CORNWELL

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
PATRICIA CORNWELL

. . . she was a tabula rasa when it came to appropriate behavior. To say Lucy was difficult is like ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

i had fired 9-millimeters before and didn't like them. they weren't as accurate as my .38 special. t...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for m...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

I brought my hand to the back of his neck and leaned into him, sliding my fingers into the curls at ...
BETSY CORNWELL

Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.
BETSY CORNWELL

Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm." I try to brush it of...
PATRICIA CORNWELL

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But n...
BERNARD BARUCH

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD

For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD

I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD

Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD

Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD

There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD

I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contem...
BERNARD LEVIN

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally ...
BERNARD LEVIN

The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin...
BERNARD BECKETT

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS

Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
SAINT BERNARD

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
BERNARD MANNING

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on...
BERNARD HILL

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE

The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fa...
BERNARD LOVELL

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring wi...
BERNARD SUMNER

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
BERNARD SUMNER

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
BERNARD BRANSON

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distort...
BERNARD INGHAM

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
BERNARD MAGAZINE

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH

Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
BERNARD BARUCH

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu...
BERNARD BERENSON

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ...
BERNARD EDMONDS

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
BERNARD MELTZER

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
BERNARD MELTZER

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But ...
BERNARD BARUCH

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...
BERNARD BARUCH

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERNARD WILLIAMS

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.
BERNARD GILPIN

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE

And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.

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And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.

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