326 Quotes by Philippa Gregory

But Elizabeth and I are accustomed to loss, we are Plantagenets – we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.

It’s not a question of wanting to be queen; it’s not even a question of wanting honorable love anymore. I am mad for him, I am madly in love with him. I would go to him if I had to walk barefoot. Tell me I am one of many. I don’t care! I don’t care for my name or for my pride anymore. As long as I can have him once more, that’s all I want, just to love him; all I want to be certain of is that I will see him again, that he loves me.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That’s three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God’s earth.

How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.

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 walk slowly and steadily towards it. And smile.

When they launch snakes you’ll have your namesake.

Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it.

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.