Philippa Gregory Quotes

I have the Sight, I should have seen it all, but some things are too dark to forsee. These are hard times, and England is a country of sorrows. No mother can be sure that she will not bury her sons. W...

There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier

There was no question now who sat at the right hand of the King. It was the Queen, who walked through the great hall wearing deepest crimson and gold with her head high and a little smile on her lips....

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

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

We would never meet. I would never have to see them. They were a life I had left behind. I could cut myself in two and say: That was the old life, the old life with her; it is gone now, all gone.

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.

This is the greatest

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

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.

Think of his cupping my mother’s cheek in his hand and telling her that she is the cleverest woman in England and he will be guided by none but her; and then going his own way.

The smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together.

She did not want him to know that she was not his beloved little sister any more but a woman who had learned to throw everything, even her mortal soul, into the battle to become queen.

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

Is that it? he demanded, in sudden rage. Is that all that matters? Not that I am in love and tumbled like a fool into sin. Not that I can never be happy, married to a snake and in love with a heartbre...

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy exp...

He knew then, as she knew always, that it does not matter if a wife is half fish, if a husband is all mortal. If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between t...

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.

I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real struggles and genuine victories. And so I hope very much that you will find this...