David Hare Quotes (25 Quotes)

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

I couldn't be happier. This is a brilliant choice.

that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay or not, which is a rather arid argument, but what's more important is that he wrote in an openly sexual way. And sex is a vital part of his romanticism.

No one but a fool is always right.

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

The thing about Shakespeare is, whatever his politics were, the one thing he wasn't was an anarchist. He believes there's something called power, and he believes that somebody has to take it. And that you can't pretend power doesn't exist. And to me, Bush is a person who understands American power, and what it can do. But unfortunately, he's used it in a way that reveals its limitations, and that's the tragedy, if you like.

Children always turn to the light.

Smiles are the language of love.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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

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

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.

In the London production, Powell was represented much more, if you like, as a hero. I admire him as a man who understands what collateral damage is, who understands what a military operation is, and who knows what it's like to see people's lives destroyed by bombs. On the other hand, a number of people who saw the play in London, who were as they say, 'close,' did say, 'You've taken too benign a view of Powell.' And in this production in New York, I've toughened up the writing about Powell. I've come to believe that 'conflicted' would be a very polite word for his UN presentation.

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Not only has Harold Pinter written some of the outstanding plays of his time, he has also blown fresh air into the musty attic of conventional English literature, by insisting that everything he does has a public and political dimension,

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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.

The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I understand it was mine.

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

He's been both an example and an inspiration to us all.