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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I do think your brother grows more peculiar every day,' I complain to Edward when he comes to my rooms in Whitehall Palace to escort me to dinner. 'Which one?' he asks lazily. 'For you know I can do nothing right in the eyes of either. You would thin...

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I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York�...

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They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.

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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

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I like writing historical fiction.

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At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

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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.

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I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

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I try to go to the gym three times a week, and I swim, too.

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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

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I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I wanted to be cold to him, so I turned on my heel ...

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Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to...

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I wil not heat treason from my own daughter What will you do behead me for treason? We are not an amry at war We are an army at war! This is your brother's rightful throne that we are talking about

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And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

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And now I wnt love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

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The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now

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Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep t...

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I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?

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And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over.

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Author Bio

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