True friends share everything, except the past before they met. — Mary Renault Friend Copy Share Image
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it. — Mary Renault Action Copy Share Image
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. — Mary Renault Change Copy Share Image
Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him. — Mary Renault Enemy Copy Share Image
“Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening." Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“I wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one… — Mary Renault Brave Copy Share Image
What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher… — Mary Renault Alive Copy Share Image
“Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me… — Mary Renault Dreamer Copy Share Image
I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself,… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so… — Mary Renault River Copy Share Image
It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the… — Mary Renault Art Copy Share Image
“It had come to him that no one would ever look from these eyes but he: that among all the lives, numerous… — Mary Renault Alien Copy Share Image
Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages,… — Mary Renault Change Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Bears Copy Share Image
“The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the… — Mary Renault Friend Copy Share Image
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted… — Mary Renault Awareness Copy Share Image
“He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you… — Mary Renault Queer Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Accidents Copy Share Image
“As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did,… — Mary Renault Historical-novel Copy Share Image
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask. — Mary Renault Beauty Copy Share Image
An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence. — Mary Renault Audience Copy Share Image
“All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault Bird Copy Share Image
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. — Mary Renault Despair Copy Share Image
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies — Mary Renault Enemy Copy Share Image
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. — Mary Renault Drunk Copy Share Image
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. — Mary Renault Ethics Copy Share Image
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. — Mary Renault Courage Copy Share Image
