Mary Renault Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

  Mary Renault

  Humility, Artist, Thinking

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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

  Mary Renault

  Horse, Heart, Love Is

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

• Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

  Mary Renault

  Horse, Fall, Grief

  Mary Renault (2015). “The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.174, Hachette UK

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