David Hare

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

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

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

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

Smiles are the language of love.

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

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?

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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

Children always turn to the light.

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

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.

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.

No one but a fool is always right.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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