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 is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death. — Mary Renault Bitter 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 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 Nature of man 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
“It had come to him that no one would ever look from these eyes but he: that among all the lives, numerous… — Mary Renault 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
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask. — Mary Renault Beauty 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
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. — Mary Renault Acts of love 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
An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence. — Mary Renault Audience 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 Half Copy Share Image
“If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“We are weary of ourselves, and have dreamed a king. If now the gods have sent us one, let us not ask… — Mary Renault 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 Friendship 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
“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
“In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” — Mary Renault Love Copy Share Image
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. — Mary Renault Drunk 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
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
