Quotes by : Mary Renault

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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