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

- Mary Renault

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

- Mary Renault

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

- Mary Renault

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

- Mary Renault

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

- Mary Renault

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

- Mary Renault

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 sho…

- Mary Renault

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

- Mary Renault

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

- Mary Renault