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 More Quotes by Philippa Gregory More Quotes From Philippa Gregory You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition Philippa Gregory virtue compromise ambition 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 tomorrow want giving 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 center-of-attention eye attention 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 wheels faces lows 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 pool weight stones 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 powerful eye heart 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 husband years thinking When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman. Philippa Gregory clever want men 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 dark sweet men You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman. Philippa Gregory heart Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies. Philippa Gregory reason men enemy Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. Philippa Gregory good-god brain men If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. Philippa Gregory love-each-other enough two In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen. Philippa Gregory magic wish world 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 despair rejection darkness 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 real dream men 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 purses jewels needs the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it Philippa Gregory delight desire bird I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville - Philippa Gregory kissing love-you children She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand. Philippa Gregory spring men blood
