David Hare Quotes

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

No one but a fool is always right.

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

Children always turn to the light.

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

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.

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

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

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

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

The future of American film lies on television.

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

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

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.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

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?