Alexander Quote by Mary Renault

“Alexander offered him (Aristotle)a hand to mount the gangplank, and tried the effect of a smile. When the man returned it, it could be…

— Mary Renault

“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

“(Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out…

— Mary Renault

if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the…

— Randall Jarrell

“Hope was all that stood between them and death.”

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“That the boy was all that stood between him and death.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.”

— Mary Renault

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]”

— Alexander the Great

As king, your desires must be stronger than any other. You must be more magnificent, more easily angered than everyone else! He should be…

— Anonymous

“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about…

— Carl Sagan

“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus , we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible, and no…

— Thomas Paine

“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.”

— Dejan Stojanovic