# David Hare (dramatist)

Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright and stage director who has also worked as a screenwriter and film director, winning a BAFTA TV Award for Licking Hitler (1979) and being nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

## Quotes

* 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.
** "The Playwright as Historian", The Sunday Times Magazine (26 November 1978.
* The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
** A Map of the World (1982), cited from Carol Homden, The Plays of David Hare (1995), p. 124.

## Misattributed

* 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.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) pp. 209–10.
* Children always turn toward the light.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 159.
* In oratory the will must predominate.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 97.
* None but a fool is always right.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 445.
* Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 563.
* Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 143.
* Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 296.
* Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 180.
* Smiles are the language of love.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 249.
* Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, and yet both actively working together.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 7.
* Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 526.
* The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 1.
* The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 459.
* Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 159.
* To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.
** Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 7.