Beauty Quotes by Philippa Gregory

8 Beauty quotes by Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory’s eight brief musings on beauty feel like elegant excerpts from a period drama—refined, evocative, and gently nostalgic. The modest collection offers a quick taste of her literary sensibility.

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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…

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“in the water is a woman of such beauty that her skin is paler than the white marble and her hair is…

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“No, you look like the beauty you are, and you know it. You have that gift, which our mother had, of growing…

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“I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But…

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“My father was exceptionally tall and exceptionally handsome, and he only had to walk into a room to dominate the assembly of…

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“I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as…

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“You are lucky in your looks,” she says. “Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender,…

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“In the darkness of the forest he saw her, and whispered her name, Melusina, and at that summoning she rose out of…

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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…

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“But I warn you that a woman who seeks great power and wealth has to pay a great price, Perhaps you will be a…

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“I raised my hand to wave in case he looked back; but he did not. He rode straight backed, looking forward. He rode like…

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“When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.”

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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…

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

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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

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“We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let…

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“One little boy, and he a bastard,' Anne said thoughtfully. 'One little girl of six, one elderly Queen and a King in the prime…

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“We have been married little more than a year and already there is a terrible silence around some subjects. We never speak of the…

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“It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn’t matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to…

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“You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart”

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“I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.”

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“I will make my own future, not predict it. I don’t need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen. I throw…

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