“Men are seldom helpless against their own evil wishes, and in their souls they know it. But common men love flattery not less than tyrants, if anyone will sell it to them. If they are told that the struggle for… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — Mary Renault Copy Share
“I looked at him, tipping down the coarse wine like a man who expects to put up with worse. I felt I was looking… — Mary Renault Copy Share
“For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There” — Mary Renault Copy Share
“Go in peace," I said to him; "bear no ill-will to me, for Necessity yields to no man: and do not complain of me… — Mary Renault Copy Share
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
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it. — Mary Renault Copy Share
“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to… — Mary Renault Copy Share
“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they… — Mary Renault Copy Share
“Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy… — Mary Renault Copy Share
“It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.” — Mary Renault Copy Share
“His mouth felt cold to mine ; he neither opened his eyes, nor spoke, nor moved. I said in my heart, "Too late I… — Mary Renault Copy Share
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle. — Mary Renault Copy Share
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game,… — Mary Renault Copy Share
