David Hare Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.”

“Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.”

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

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

“Smiles are the language of love.”

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

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

“The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.”