Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.
Philippa Gregory
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Anything
Ever
Everything
William
Life
George
Ambition
Simply
Trouble
Goal
More quotes by Philippa Gregory
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
It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
Philippa Gregory
Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
Philippa Gregory
But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
Philippa Gregory
For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
Philippa Gregory
Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
Philippa Gregory
He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
Philippa Gregory
Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
Philippa Gregory
I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
Philippa Gregory
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
Philippa Gregory
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.
Philippa Gregory
To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
Philippa Gregory
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
Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
Philippa Gregory
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
Philippa Gregory
I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future I am going to make it happen.
Philippa Gregory
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
Philippa Gregory
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
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
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
Philippa Gregory
