Quotes by Hare, David

"No one but a fool is always right."

Hare, David on fools and foolishness
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"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

Hare, David on art
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"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."

Hare, David on heaven   

"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."

Hare, David on honor   

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

Hare, David on mind   

"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."

Hare, David on poetry and poets   

"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

Hare, David on poetry and poets
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"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."

Hare, David on resolution   

"Smiles are the language of love."

Hare, David on smile
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"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."

Hare, David on strength   

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."

Hare, David on belief   

"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."

Hare, David on theater   

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

Hare, David on thoughts and thinking
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"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."

Hare, David on virtue
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"In oratory the will must predominate."

Hare, David on power   

"Children always turn to the light."

Hare, David on children   

"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."

Hare, David on civilization