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
horse heart love-is
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.
love heart shining
By her shining and her power he knew her.
heart clouds rose
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.
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...
best buts english-novelist money
Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom.
hate excellence
To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
enemy weapons pretence
Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
hatred excellence desire
What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
courage tyrants virtue
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.
destiny our-destiny
When we serve the great, they are our destiny.
believe audience ifs
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
beautiful fashion men
Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.
inspire youth madness
There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.
kings heirs slave
I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.