Philippa Gregory Quotes

As I say—it’s not the plague. It’s this new illness. They call it the sweating sickness, a new plague that King

Jane had gone to pray for the dead queen, Anne would dance on her grave. The

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

The bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

I am sure your piety does you great credit, Margaret. But certainly, if God is speaking to the king, then He has not chosen the best time for this conversation.

Twelfth night, of all the nights of the year, is one where shapes shift and identities flicker.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

Of the agreed facts: the official bedding; the young couple co-habiting at Ludlow; their youth and health; and the absence of any concern about the consummation of their marriage; convincingly indicat...

Never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.

I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I wa...

You just decide. Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and walk towards it. Remember - anything you fear, you...

Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.

And it was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she...

What he does not know is that his greatest friend of all, the man he loves as a brother, has become indeed like a brother: as false to him as any envious rivalrous brother of York.

You are a son of Melusina, I say, trying to smile. You sound like her when she had to be free to go into the water.

I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.