Quotes by Philippa Gregory

About Philippa Gregory:

Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist who has been writing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two separate films.
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Do you not think that God will protect us?” “No,” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

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I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.

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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

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He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

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She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel’s smile.

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I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness.

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I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

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I sit on the bed and kick off my shoes, and he kneels before me and takes the riding boots, holding one open for my bare foot. I hesitate; it is such an intimate gesture between a young woman and a man. His smiling upward glance tells me that he unde...

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Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me

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Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isabel.’ ‘That’s why you can trust...

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And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’ I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father’s when he sailed for England. ‘You do? Truly?’ ‘I do.’ He rises ...

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Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die a...

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This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.

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If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.

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We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?

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Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

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My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

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Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!

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Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.

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The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

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Author Bio

  • NamePhilippa Gregory
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist
  • BornJanuary 9, 1954
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist