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Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl , which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two separate films.

AudioFile magazine has called Gregory "the queen of British historical fiction". Wikipedia  

✵ 9. January 1954
Philippa Gregory photo

Works

The Other Boleyn Girl
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The White Queen
The White Queen
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The Constant Princess
The Constant Princess
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The Other Boleyn Girl
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The White Queen
The White Queen
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The Constant Princess
The Constant Princess
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Philippa Gregory: 47 quotes3 likes

Famous Philippa Gregory Quotes

“When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

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

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Queen

Source: The Other Queen

“It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.”

Philippa Gregory book The Boleyn Inheritance

Source: The Boleyn Inheritance

“The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

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

Philippa Gregory book The Constant Princess

Source: The Constant Princess

Philippa Gregory Quotes about heart

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“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.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“I am too dark in my heart tonight.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.”

Philippa Gregory book The Virgin's Lover

Source: The Virgin's Lover

Philippa Gregory Quotes about love

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“If there is love enough, then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory Quotes

“For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.”

Philippa Gregory

“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.”

Philippa Gregory

“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”

Philippa Gregory book The Constant Princess

Source: The Constant Princess

“Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying."
"If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.”

Philippa Gregory book The Constant Princess

Source: The Constant Princess

“I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

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

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.”

Philippa Gregory book The Queen's Fool

Source: The Queen's Fool

“I have learned the power of surviving.”

Philippa Gregory book The Boleyn Inheritance

Source: The Boleyn Inheritance

“The wheel of fortune […] tells us that we all only want victory. 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.”

Philippa Gregory book The Lady of the Rivers

Source: The Lady of the Rivers

“You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.”

Philippa Gregory book The Constant Princess

Source: The Constant Princess

“Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Queen

Source: The Other Queen

“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“We're going' Anne said firmly.
So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'
Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“Some women attract desire. Others do not.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

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

Philippa Gregory book The Red Queen

The Red Queen

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