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
Mary Renault quotes about
despair oneself
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.
dull speech common
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...
longing aspiration all-things
Longing performs all things
unexpected kind shock
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.