David Hare

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

— David Hare

I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My…

— David Hare

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.

— David Hare

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully…

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything.…

— David Hare

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…

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

— David Hare

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

— David Hare

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the…

— David Hare

“You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.”

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

— David Hare

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

— David Hare

“If anything has been my salvation as a human being it is this choice of an activity which is, at the deepest…

— David Hare

I believe love opens people up.

— David Hare

Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to…

— David Hare

I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in…

— David Hare

. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very,…

— David Hare

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

— David Hare

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

— David Hare