Bernard Cornwell Quotes

Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

I said "Vote Yes." He voted "Yes." We rolled him out again. He does better under sedation.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.

The Egyptians by the custom of their country circumcise the marriageable youth and maid in the fourteenth (year) of their age, when the male begins to get seed, and the female to have a menstrual flow

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

Honestly, I'd rather not talk about my health.

I had heart surgery when I was 17.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity.

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.

Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.