“There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.”
Source: The King Must Die
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Famous Mary Renault Quotes
“But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.”
“But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.”
Source: The Last of the Wine
Source: The Last of the Wine
Source: The Last of the Wine
Source: The Mask of Apollo
Source: The Last of the Wine
Source: The Mask of Apollo
Source: The Mask of Apollo
“Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.”
Source: The Mask of Apollo
Source: The Last of the Wine
Source: The Mask of Apollo
“There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.”
Source: The Praise Singer: A Virago Modern Classic
“How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?”
“The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.”
“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”
Source: fire from heaven
Source: The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic
Source: The Mask of Apollo
“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.”
“Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.”
Source: North Face: A Virago Modern Classic
“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
“We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.”
“Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.”
Source: The Last of the Wine
“It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.”
Source: The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
“It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.”
Source: The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic
“Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.”
“You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.”
Source: The Mask of Apollo
Source: The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
“Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.”