Bernard Cornwell Quotes

'You had no choice, sir.' 'There's always a choice.'

Bernard Cornwell

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• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Fame

• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • True
  • Fiction

• I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  

  Adam Brody
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Date

• I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Air
  • Successful

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Guy
  • Problem
  • Going

• Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Mirror
  • Monkey

• I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Try
  • Healthy

• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People

• The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Religious

• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • People
  • Character
  • Idea

• Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • People
  • Black
  • Hair

• I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it's cool and it's popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They're sleek, black, they look good on a roof.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Long
  • Mean
  • Secret

• 'You had no choice, sir.' 'There's always a choice.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell