Bernard Cornwell - Bloody Quotes

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There's a great blood mine, sir! Just waiting to kill our lads! I ain't letting that happen. You can do what you bloody well like, but I'm going to kill some more of these bastards.

Bernard Cornwell
If you capture a ship, Sharpe, you keep the old name unless it's really obnoxious. Nelson took the Franklin at the Nile, an eighty gun thing of great beauty, but the navy will be damned if it has a ship named after a traitorous bloody Yankee so we call her the Canopus now.

Bernard Cornwell
"It is not wise, I think, to mix private revenge with war."
"Of course it's not wise, but it's bloody enjoyable. Enjoying yourself, Sergeant?"
"Never been happier, sir."

Bernard Cornwell
You're a light company, and that means you can go where other Soldier's can't. It makes you an elite. You know what that means? It means you're the best men in the bloody army, and right now the army needs its best men. It needs you.

Bernard Cornwell
What did he want? A tournament? Who does he think we are? The knights of the round bloody table? I don't know what happens to some folk. They put a sir in front of their names and their brains get addled. Fighting fair! Whoever heard of anything so daft? Fight fair and you lose.

Bernard Cornwell
"Form them up Sergeant!"
"Aye aye, sir."
"You're not a bloody sailor, Sergeant. A plain yes will do."
Aye aye, sir."

Bernard Cornwell
"They'll bloody kill you."
"Maybe they'll turn and run.
"God save Ireland, and why would they do that?"
"Because God wears a green jacket, of course."

Bernard Cornwell