Philippa Gregory Quotes
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.
Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.
Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.
If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.
I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.
...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
