Quotes by : Mary Renault

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

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

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

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

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

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

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

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

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