David Hare (dramatist) quotes

Smiles are the language of love. (David Hare (dramatist))
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
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. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. View quote
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Children always turn to the light. View quote
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. View quote
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In oratory the will must predominate. View quote
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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. View quote
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None but a fool is always right. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. (David Hare (dramatist))
To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin. View quote
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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. View quote
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Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, and yet both actively working together. View quote
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. View quote
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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. View quote
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The future of American film lies on television. View quote
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In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. View quote
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The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. View quote
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Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again. View quote
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An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. (David Hare (dramatist))
Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)