Quotes by Mary Renault

About Mary Renault:

Mary Renault was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander.
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After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away from; why he had refused Sandy's first invitation, and what the trouble had been with Charles. It was also the trouble, he perceiv...

Mary Renault

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

Mary Renault

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

Mary Renault

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Mary Renault

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

Mary Renault

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

Mary Renault

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Mary Renault

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

Mary Renault

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

Mary Renault

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Mary Renault

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

Mary Renault

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Renault

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Mary Renault

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

Mary Renault

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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

Mary Renault

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

Mary Renault

Author Bio

  • NameMary Renault
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • AliasesEileen Mary Challans
  • BornSeptember 4, 1905
  • DiedDecember 13, 1983
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; South Africa
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist