Bernard Cornwell Quotes

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

War is the science of destruction.

War is the trade of Kings.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Some of your enemies are real enemies and you are just going to have to fight them

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

Instead of stealing upon each other and taking every advantage to kill the enemy and save their own people, as we do, they [whites] march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may loose!

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

The combat man isn't the same clean-cut lad because you don't fight a kraut by Marquis of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with mines, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

War makes early risers of us all.