Mary Renault Quotes

Women have been late-in-the-game deciders. They weigh all of the issues, all of the images, and all of the information and make a choice almost at the last minute.

For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

Is he under the influence or something?

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Those that consult more, make less mistakes

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.

Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk." You aren't standing up." he point out. You are.