Mary Renault Short Quotes

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Illegibility, she maintained, was a form of bad manners.

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But he had all an artist needs, except the spark from the god.

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

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Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

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But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

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

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

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There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

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It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

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You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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

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But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

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Her smile was as open as a small boy's, a personal enjoyment rather than a social gesture.

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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

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He thought, like all other fathers, that I was younger and sillier than himself at the same age.

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

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In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

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Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

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Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

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A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

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An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

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In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

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Don't you understand even seedtime and reaping? How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

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There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

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