326 Quotes by Philippa Gregory

There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier.

You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.

She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man’s world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man’s drum. Do.

And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.

Learn you to die!” means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful.

There are many sorts of love,” she counsels me. “And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.

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

But seeing those words that were first written, and scratched out, and rewritten again in print and bound into a book, I know that I love the process of writing and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world – this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves.

There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. It destroys families; it is killing us daily.