Philippa Gregory Quotes

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

  Philippa Gregory

  Ambition, Compromise, Virtue

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• 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.

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  Husband, Thinking, Years

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.2782, Simon and Schuster

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• I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

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  Sweet, Dark, Men

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

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  Corazón

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• 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.

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  Giving, Want, Tomorrow

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Queen”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

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  Faces, Wheels, Lows

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Princess”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

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  Hombres, Enemigo, Razón

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

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  Eye, Attention, Center Of Attention

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

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  Weight, Stones, Pool

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

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  Clever, Men, Want

  Philippa Gregory (2012). “The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Mean, Might, Lasts

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.2644, Simon and Schuster

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• A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

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  Men, Promise, Can Do

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's The Cousins' War 3-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen, The White Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers”, p.764, Simon and Schuster

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• Catalina de Aragón hablaba en nombre de las mujeres del país, de las buenas esposas que no debían ser dejadas de lado sólo porque sus maridos se hubieran encaprichado de otra, de las mujeres que recorrían el duro camino entre la cocina, el dormitorio, la iglesia y el parto. Por las mujeres que merecían algo más que el capricho de su marido.

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  Country, Husband, Taken

  Philippa Gregory (2007). “The Other Boleyn Girl: A Novel”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.

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  Daughter, Rights, Age

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• Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

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  Powerful, Heart, Eye

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Bird, Desire, Delight

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Queen”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

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  Magic, Wish, World

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.

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  Men, Brain, Good God

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.1381, Simon and Schuster

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• La rueda de la fortuna [...] nos dice que todos sólo queremos la victoria. Todos queremos triunfar. Pero todos tenemos que aprender a soportar lo que viene. Tenemos que aprender a tratar la desgracia y la gran fortuna con indiferencia. Eso es sabiduría.

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  Victory, Triumph, Want

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

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  Rejection, Darkness, Despair

  Philippa Gregory (2004). “The Queen's Fool: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• One never gets the same summer twice.

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  Verano

  Philippa Gregory (2007). “Wideacre: A Novel”, p.609, Simon and Schuster

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• He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

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  Men, Giving, Wanted

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Queen”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.

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  Two, Enough, Love Each Other

  Philippa Gregory (2009). “The White Queen”, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

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  Sueño, Real, Hombres

  Philippa Gregory (2014). “The White Princess”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

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  Men, Tricks

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.567, Simon and Schuster

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