Quotes About Uhtred

#1. What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. You will tell him that Uhtred of Bebbanburg is in a mood to kill.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. You're a bastard," I said.
"Uhtred," he began, but could find nothing more to say.
"You're a piece of weasel-shit," I said, "you're an earsling."
"I'm a king," he said, trying to regain his dignity.
"So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.

Bernard Cornwell

#4. Win your war, Lord Uhtred," he said, "then take her away from us priests and give her lots of children. She'll be happy, and one day she'll be truly wise. That's the women's real gift, to be wise, and not many men have it.

Bernard Cornwell

#5. All those separate people were a part of my life, strings strung on the frame of Uhtred, and though they were separate they affected one another and together they would make the music of my life.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. Alfred has trapped you, Uhtred."
"No," I said, "the spinners did that." Ur r, Ver andi, and Skuld, the three women who spin our threads at the foot of Yggdrasil, had decided my fate. Destiny is all. "I shall go to my woman," I said.

Bernard Cornwell

#7. He thinks with his heart, Uhtred,' Alfred said, 'not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. All you need to know, boy," Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.

Bernard Cornwell

#9. My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred.

Bernard Cornwell

#10. There's war between the gods, Uhtred, war between the Christian god and our gods, and when there is war in Asgard the gods make us fight for them on earth.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. Tell Ragnall," I told him, "that the Saxons of Mercia are coming. Tell him that his dead will number in the thousands. Tell him that his own death is just days away. Tell him that promise comes from Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. The church, we're to meet in the church. Do try to wipe that blood off your mail, Uhtred. We're an embassy!

Bernard Cornwell

#13. There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it!

Bernard Cornwell

#14. The Lord Uhtred sought to annoy you, bishop," the king said, "and it is best not to give him the satisfaction of showing that he has succeeded.

Bernard Cornwell

#15. I had the arrogant confidence of a man born to battle. I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, son of another Uhtred, and we had not held Bebbanburg and its lands by whimpering at altars. We are warriors.

Bernard Cornwell

#16. Choose your battles,' I snarled at Aethelstan. 'That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.' Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg

Bernard Cornwell

#17. We are going to soak this rock with blood! I am Uhtred! I am the lord here. This is my rock!

Bernard Cornwell

#18. Uhtred of Steapa - He might be dumb as a parsnip but he knows how to fight.

Bernard Cornwell

#19. I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.

Bernard Cornwell

#20. In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side With it's understanding we all would want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of.

Anonymous

#21. I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.

Bernard Cornwell

#22. It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Robertson Davies

#23. You bastard!' he shouted. He was quick. No warrior stays alive by being slow.

Bernard Cornwell

#24. We were three ships in a summer's dawn, and we were going to battle.

Bernard Cornwell

#25. We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

James Stewart

#26. Cnut Longsword had near killed me with his blade Ice-Spite and it was small consolation that Serpent-Breath had sliced his throat in the same heartbeat that his sword had broken a rib and pierced my lung.

Bernard Cornwell

#27. You should always plan your battles form the enemy's point of view.

Bernard Cornwell

#28. Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

James Heckman

#29. How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

Andy Quan

#30. Serpent-Breath was famous ... Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.

Bernard Cornwell

#31. I could imagine Cnut sitting there and thinking that I must join him soon, and we would raise a horn of ale together. There is no pain in Valhalla, no sadness, no tears, no broken oaths.

Bernard Cornwell

#32. Get busy living the life of your dreams instead of looking for the man or woman of your dreams.

Regina Brett

#33. The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

Bill Courtney

#34. Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.

Bernard Cornwell

#35. So there's never a reason to be afraid of running out of time - because we keep our own.

Rachel Van Dyken