157 Quotes by Mary Renault

We are weary of ourselves, and have dreamed a king. If now the gods have sent us one, let us not ask him to be more than mortal.

There is truth and truth,’ said the priest of Delos. ‘It is true after its kind.

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.

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