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

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

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

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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. - David Hare

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No one but a fool is always right. - David Hare

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

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Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.' — Jimmy Fallon

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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. - David Hare

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. - David Hare

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

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