Quotes by David Hare

• The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
• When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
• Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
• To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
• Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
• 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.
• Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
• 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.
• Smiles are the language of love.
• Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
• No one but a fool is always right.
• In oratory the will must predominate.
• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
• An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
• Children always turn to the light.
• Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.