David Hare
English playwright and stage director who has also worked as a screenwriter and film director, winning a BAFTA and being nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
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To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.
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.
Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.
Smiles are the language of love.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
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.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.
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