Misattributed quotes — David Hare
born 1947 England
15 quotes
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.
To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.
Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.
Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
Children always turn toward the light.
None but a fool is always right.
Smiles are the language of love.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Hare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.