David Hare Quotes


"When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths."
- David Hare
(Related: Frogs)

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."
- David Hare
(Related: Adversity, Deep, Prosperity, Tides)

"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."
- David Hare
(Related: God, Disgrace, Honor, Sin)

"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
- David Hare
(Related: Truth, Honor, Purity)

"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
- David Hare
(Related: Civilization)

"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."
- David Hare
(Related: Mercury, Weather)

"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."
- David Hare
(Related: Strength, Virtue, Christianity, Obedience)

"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."
- David Hare
(Related: People, Heart)

"Smiles are the language of love."
- David Hare
(Related: Love, Language, Smiles)

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."
- David Hare
(Related: Thought, Knowledge, Wind)

"No one but a fool is always right."
- David Hare
(Related: Fool, Right)

"In oratory the will must predominate."
- David Hare
(Related: Oratory, Will)

"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
- David Hare
(Related: Nature, Poetry, Key)

"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
- David Hare
(Related: Language, Stupidity)

"Children always turn to the light."
- David Hare
(Related: Children, Light)

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."
- David Hare
(Related: Earth, Heaven, Nothing)