It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault Blush Copy Share Image
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. — Mary Renault Despair Copy Share Image
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask. — Mary Renault Beauty Copy Share Image
“All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man” — Mary Renault Years Copy Share Image
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. — Mary Renault Boasters 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
“It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold… — Mary Renault Feel Black 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 Felt 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 Alexander 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 War Copy Share Image
“His mouth felt cold to mine ; he neither opened his eyes, nor spoke, nor moved. I said in my heart, "Too… — Mary Renault Alexias 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
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
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
“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
Do not believe that others will die, not you… I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death… — Mary Renault Believe 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 Five years 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 Feel 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 Alexias 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 Coward 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
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death. — Mary Renault Bitter Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.” — Mary Renault King Copy Share Image
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — Mary Renault Audience Copy Share Image
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. — Mary Renault Courage Copy Share Image
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. — Mary Renault Acts of love Copy Share Image
