Mary Renault
Mary Renault
Mary Renault, born Eileen Mary Challans, 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 September 1905
trust people harvest
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
friendship evil bitter
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
dull speech common
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...
regret believe men
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.
forever might would-be
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
pain believe heart
He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship...
destiny our-destiny
When we serve the great, they are our destiny.
destiny our-destiny
When we serve the great, they are our destiny.
love heart shining
By her shining and her power he knew her.
love heart shining
By her shining and her power he knew her.