David Hare

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

— David Hare

Children always turn to the light.

— David Hare

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

No one but a fool is always right.

— David Hare

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.

— David Hare

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

— David Hare

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

— David Hare

Smiles are the language of love.

— David Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

— David Hare

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.

— David Hare

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

— David Hare

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

— David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.

— David Hare