“All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man” — Mary Renault 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
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask. — Mary Renault Beauty Copy Share Image
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. — Mary Renault Drunk Copy Share Image
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies — Mary Renault Enemy Copy Share Image
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. — Mary Renault Despair Copy Share Image
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault Bird 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 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
“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 is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is… — Mary Renault 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 Childbirth 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 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
“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
“I came for the cause. Since I could not help, at least don't let me remember that I hindered it. I've learned… — Mary Renault Philosopher 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 Copy Share Image
“Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two… — 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
Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos… — Mary Renault Achilles 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
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. — Mary Renault Change 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
“I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She” — Mary Renault 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
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult. — Mary Renault Fallacy 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 Hatred Copy Share Image
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — Mary Renault Audience Copy Share Image
“If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.” — Mary Renault 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
True friends share everything, except the past before they met. — Mary Renault Friend Copy Share Image
