Philippa Gregory

“Last time I danced in these rooms it was the Christmas feast and I was wearing a dress of silk as rich…

— Philippa Gregory

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

— Philippa Gregory

“Each hour burns slowly away, although time means nothing to him now. Time is quite lost to him in his eternal darkness,…

— Philippa Gregory

“see her hesitating at the threshold as if she cannot bear to leave him, and I give her a smile, and I…

— Philippa Gregory

“Dželat mi prilazi i kaže: "Spustite glavu na panj i raširite ruke kad budete spremni, gospo." Poslušno spuštam ruke na panj i…

— Philippa Gregory

“It seems that we have to be married,” he says, a harder note coming into his voice. “I am honored by the…

— Philippa Gregory

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

— Philippa Gregory

“We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals…

— Philippa Gregory

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of…

— Philippa Gregory

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

— Philippa Gregory

“I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it…

— Philippa Gregory

“A title like ‘the Lady,’ for those who are too mealymouthed to call a whore a whore.”

— Philippa Gregory

One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the…

— Philippa Gregory

“It is as I said. Your house’s emblem should not be the white rose but the old sign of eternity.” “Eternity?” I…

— Philippa Gregory

“She poured me a cup of coffee and I drank it standing by the back door, looking out of the back garden.…

— Philippa Gregory

“Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Because they will want me in Edinburgh to make sure that the Scottish king holds to the new alliance with England. They’ll…

— Philippa Gregory

“Look, you can't fight everyone... You have to choose where you belong and rest there.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her…

— Philippa Gregory

“Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.”

— Philippa Gregory

“When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.”

— Philippa Gregory

When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something,…

— Philippa Gregory

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

— Philippa Gregory

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

— Philippa Gregory

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think…

— Philippa Gregory