1947-, British Playwright, Director
Children always turn to the light.
David Hare – [Children]
In oratory the will must predominate.
David Hare – [Will and Will Power]
No one but a fool is always right.
David Hare – [Fools and Foolishness]
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David Hare – [Heaven]
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David Hare – [Poetry and Poets]
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
David Hare – [Virtue]
Smiles are the language of love.
David Hare – [Smile]
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 – [Heart]
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare – [Strength]
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
David Hare – [Resolution]
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
David Hare – [Belief]
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David Hare – [Poetry and Poets]
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 – [Theater]
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
David Hare – [Civilization]
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David Hare – [Thoughts and Thinking]
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
David Hare – [Honor]
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare – [Mind]