But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. — Mary Renault Character 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
True friends share everything, except the past before they met. — Mary Renault Friend Copy Share Image
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault Boredom 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
“If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.” — Mary Renault 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
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
“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
“It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold… — 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
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
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 Image
“You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so… — Mary Renault River 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
“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
He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he… — Mary Renault 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 Copy Share Image
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold… — Mary Renault Care Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Accidents Copy Share Image
“As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did,… — Mary Renault Historical-novel 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
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — Mary Renault Audience 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
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
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
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. — Mary Renault Gems Copy Share Image
It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault 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
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault Bird Copy Share Image
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. — Mary Renault Despair Copy Share Image
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies — Mary Renault Enemy Copy Share Image
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. — Mary Renault Drunk Copy Share Image
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask. — Mary Renault Beauty 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
“All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
