David Hare Quotes

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

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

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

Smiles are the language of love.

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

No one but a fool is always right.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

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.

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

I believe love opens people up.

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

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular.

The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

Children always turn to the light.

The future of American film lies on television.

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

One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.