David Hare Quotes

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

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.

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

Smiles are the language of love.

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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

Children always turn to the light.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

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

No one but a fool is always right.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

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

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.