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

Children always turn to the light.
David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.
David Hare

No one but a fool is always right.
David Hare

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David Hare

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
David Hare

Smiles are the language of love.
David Hare

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

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


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

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
David Hare

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David Hare

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

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

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