Quote

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Philippa Gregory

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Nothing
Fortune
Courage
Turn
Takes
High
Throws
Face
Wheel
Turns
Wheels
Faces
Lows

More quotes by Philippa Gregory

Image
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
Image
the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
Philippa Gregory
Image
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
Philippa Gregory
Image
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
Image
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
Philippa Gregory
Image
Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.
Philippa Gregory
Image
I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
Philippa Gregory
Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
Philippa Gregory
Image
We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
Philippa Gregory
Image
There are many sorts of love. 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. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.
Philippa Gregory
Image
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
Image
To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
Philippa Gregory
Image
I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
Philippa Gregory
Image
For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
Philippa Gregory
Image
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
Image
Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
Philippa Gregory
Image
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
Image
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
Image
When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
Philippa Gregory
Image
He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
Philippa Gregory