But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. — Mary Renault Gems 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
“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.” — Mary Renault Alexander-the-great Copy Share Image
He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he… — Mary Renault Answers Copy Share Image
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies — Mary Renault Enemy 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 Believe 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 Earth and sky Copy Share Image
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault Boredom 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 Alexander 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 thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself,… — Mary Renault Born 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
