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.....

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

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

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

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

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

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....