What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta anothe… - Mary Renault

" "
What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land where the dead return across the river.

Mary Renault

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

honor alexias

English

Collect this quote

About Mary Renault

Mary Renault (born Mary Challans, 4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) was an English writer most famous for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Eileen Mary Challans

All quotes from Mary Renault Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Mary Renault:

John Steinbeck Robert Louis Stevenson William Faulkner E. M. Forster John Buchan

Additional quotes by Mary Renault

A young man sat down beside him on the divan and, without any kind of preliminary, said, ‘Is it a queer book?’
‘No,’ said Laurie.
‘Oh,’ said the young man, on a note of utter deflation. He got up and went away.

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land… - Mary Renault

About Mary Renault

Also Known As

Advanced Search Filters

Additional quotes by Mary Renault

Try QuoteGPT