Mary Renault Quotes

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would...

People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap f...

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more th...

Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then,...

In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very s...

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to y...

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I...

There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the t...

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it...

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has re...

It's only since it's been made impossible that it's been made so damn easy. It's got like prohibitio...

After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he ha...

What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something el...

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I t...

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or a...

Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.