Quotes by : Mary Renault

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

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

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....

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

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

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

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

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

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