David Hare Quotes

• The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
• The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
• A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
• Children always turn toward the light.
• In oratory the will must predominate.
• None but a fool is always right.
• Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.
• Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.
• Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.
• Smiles are the language of love.
• Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, and yet both actively working together.
• Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.
• The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
• The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.
• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.
• To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.

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