David Hare (dramatist)

thumb|Sir David Hare in 2018 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. External links Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:Playwrights from England Category:Screenwriters from England Category:Film directors from England Category:Theatre directors Category:Laurence Olivier Award winners