Quotes from David Hare

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Children always turn to the light.

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

Smiles are the language of love.

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.

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

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

And do you really never look at anything -- anything at all -- and consider it might be beautiful in itself?

Is there anything worse than being trapped in a dream?

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

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

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

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

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

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

Smiles are the language of love.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

No one but a fool is always right.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.