Quotes by Mary Renault

Mary Renault

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

Action

Men

Thinking

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

Blood

Men

Together

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

Easier

Esteem

Men

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy – and that is as well, for one could not bear it – whose grief is that the principals never met.

Fate

Grief

Play

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

Hands

Silence

Twenties

At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him.

Blue

Eye

Games

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Courage

Tyrants

Virtue

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

Owners

Perfect

Vases

By her shining and her power he knew her.

Heart

Love

Shining

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one’s grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

Fall

Grief

Horse

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Dark Places

Democracy

Despair

Destiny

Determined

Drunk

Dull

Easier

Enemy

Esteem

Evil

Excellence

Eye

Fall

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Fate

Forever

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Grief

Half

Hands

Harvest

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Hatred

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Quotes by Mary Renault

Mary Renault

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

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

By her shining and her power he knew her.

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