326 Quotes by Philippa Gregory

The mown grass is growing again nearly to our knees; we will take a second crop of hay from this field, rich and green and starred with moon daisies, buttercups and the bright, blowsy heads of poppies.

These were simple people: when someone told them that they had nothing to fear they knew that they were in trouble.

People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.

I was not nervous. For the first time ever I felt as if I had taken my life into my own hands and I could command my own destiny. For once I was obedient neither to uncle nor father nor king, but following my own desires. And I knew that my desire led me, inexorably, to the man I loved. I.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

I won’t forgive this wrong done to me and my house, whoever it was that killed my boys, I shall put a curse on their house that they will have no first born son to inherit. Whoever took my son will lose his son. He will spend his life longing for an heir. He will bury his first born and long for him, for I cannot even bury mine.

She doesn’t realize yet though men go to war it is the women who suffer – perhaps more than anyone.

It is the old smile of gritty courage that all women show who have gone through hard nights and come out without betrayal.