“Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.” — Mary Renault King Copy Share Image
“If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — Mary Renault Audience Copy Share Image
“In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” — Mary Renault Hatred Copy Share Image
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult. — Mary Renault Fallacy Copy Share Image
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. — Mary Renault Character Copy Share Image
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault Boredom Copy Share Image
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. — Mary Renault Hatred Copy Share Image
“They say women forget the pain of childbirth. Well, they are in nature's hand. No hand took mine. I was a body… — Mary Renault Childbirth Copy Share Image
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.” — Mary Renault Admiration Copy Share Image
“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are,… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he… — Mary Renault Bears Copy Share Image
Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Do not believe that others will die, not you… I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos… — Mary Renault Achilles Copy Share Image
“(Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two… — Mary Renault Change Copy Share Image
“Alexander offered him (Aristotle)a hand to mount the gangplank, and tried the effect of a smile. When the man returned it, it… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“I came for the cause. Since I could not help, at least don't let me remember that I hindered it. I've learned… — Mary Renault Philosopher Copy Share Image
“Men are seldom helpless against their own evil wishes, and in their souls they know it. But common men love flattery not… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“You wished for me, Athenians; I am here. Do not question me, do not hurt me; I am the wish sprung from… — Mary Renault Desire Copy Share Image
“Go in peace," I said to him; "bear no ill-will to me, for Necessity yields to no man: and do not complain… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Don't talk so, Lysis. I'm sure you kept your head much better than I did." He smiled, and quoted a certain phrase,… — Mary Renault Getting old Copy Share Image
“Presently, he looked at the people standing round and said, "You have leave to go." They bowed out. When the lads behind… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away… — Mary Renault Human experience Copy Share Image
“I looked at him, tipping down the coarse wine like a man who expects to put up with worse. I felt I… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
