Courtesans Quote by Mary Renault Download Open image “It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.” — Mary Renault ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courtesans Kings
“The dresses are indecent," she said stiffly, the rich silk flowing against her body like water. "But pretty." She shot him another fulminating glance.… — Anna Campbell Copy Share Image
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed… — John Selden Copy Share Image
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“I looked at him, tipping down the coarse wine like a man who expects to put up with worse. I felt I was looking… — Mary Renault 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. There” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Go in peace," I said to him; "bear no ill-will to me, for Necessity yields to no man: and do not complain of me… — Mary Renault 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
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to… — Mary Renault 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, if they… — 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 this. Joy… — 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 of chaos.” — 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 late I… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick …… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and… — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
“But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.” “Well, that was what… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
