Philippa Gregory Quotes
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Philippa Gregory Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile.
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.
It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do.
A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.
Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.
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.
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He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life.
Do you not think that God will protect us?"
"No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.
"No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.
Heart of England; it cannot be attacked without hurting us all. The king listened to him, listened to every word, and at the end of it he said that
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.
Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.
God does not make the way smooth for those He loves. He sends hardships to try them. Those that God loves the best are those who suffer the worst.
They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.
In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave.
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
It is for your daughter," she said. "For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine." There
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.
But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.
My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.
In Spain, indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise ... guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.
Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not.
I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.
If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight.
He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.
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.
I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.
For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?
Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.
The smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together.
There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.
People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.
There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. It destroys families; it is killing us daily.
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.