157 Quotes by Mary Renault

Half the world’s troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Do you know that old song about Orpheus, how he played his lyre on the mountainside, and found a lion had crouched at his feet to listen? I’m no Orpheus, I know; but sometimes I see the lion’s eyes. Where did it go, after the music, what became of it? The story doesn’t say.

May the Mother curse him and all gods below, and may Night’s Daughters hunt him down into the ground! And on the hand that sheds his blood let there be a blessing.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask...

A starving man won’t notice a dirty plate.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.

The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes.

It’s not what one is, it’s what one does with it.