Quotessence
Home / Authors / Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory Quotes

Novelist

Filter quotes by topic

AllIfsMenHistoryKnowsWomenThinkingHeartSaidWantWar

Famous Philippa Gregory Quotes

“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”

WellsMaySpeakLanguageHalfLatinDozenSpeaks French
Book: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
Create image

“She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

IfsMenWantMayTurnsFoundLanguageWaterCan DoSecretBreakBloodReturnPromiseSpringTragedyDepthForestsTunesGoddessFar AwayTailsGreeceWaterfallsChristendomFaithlessFishy
Author:Philippa Gregory
Create image

“Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.”

KnowsWantHeartChildrenSaidSoulWantedBreakLove YouDangerSonFoolEnglandOur ChildrenQueensPrincessMaryCarpenterMy Princess
Author:Philippa Gregory
Create image

“Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.”

ShouldCountryHardChurchTakenWifeHusbandKitchenFancyBedroomChildbirthWhimSpeaking OutGood Wife
Book:The Other Boleyn Girl: A Novel
Create image

“Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.”

MotherVisionDestinyGraceBloodSonKingsLowsEnglandQueensCall MeMy SonLaughedThronesRoyalVocationDoubtedMy DestinyRoyal Blood
Book:The Red Queen: A Novel
Create image

“When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.”

KnowsWantFirstsSometimesDesireStepsPrayingUnhappyHardestAcknowledgeThings To DoFirst StepsHardest ThingWant SomethingHave CourageHardest Thing To Do
Book:The Lady of the Rivers
Create image

“Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.”

ThinkingFirstsLittlesYoungFallGirlLossSpeechFirst TimeRoseFalling In LoveStumblingBlushingKittiesThinking Of Someone
Book: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
Create image

“We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.”

MightEnglandQueensOur FamilyQueen Of England
Book: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
Create image

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

SelfTakenBeloved
Book: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
Create image

“Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.”

MenWorldMeanCareWiseLaysTake CareHarmCurseTargetArrowsWise WomenCursingRight Man
Book:The Lady of the Rivers
Create image

“I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -”

ThinkingKnowsWantFeelsLooksChildrenDesireSinPleasureLove YouArmsBedKissingCupsBreastsI Want YouThronesPalmsHeirsEyelashesTilt
Book:Philippa Gregory's Wars of the Roses 2-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen and The White Queen
Create image

“I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him.”

ThinkingFirstsMomentsEyeRunningFacesTurnsArmsKissingMouthsFirst TimeWindowSurpriseFriendlyBreathlessClosed EyesFriendly Faces
Book:The Kingmaker's Daughter
Create image

“And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’ I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father’s when he sailed for England. ‘You do? Truly?’ ‘I do.’ He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. ‘Will you marry me?’ he whispers. ‘Yes,’ I say.”

IfsThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsWellsLongHas BeensLastsFacesTurnsFatherSawsFeetLove YouEnglandShouldersJacketsChinsMatchedMarry MeLovelessDaintyWill You Marry Me
Author:Philippa Gregory
Create image