Quote #12

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.

More from David Hare

  1. Smiles are the language of love.
  2. Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.
  3. Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.
  4. The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
  5. Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.
  6. The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.
  7. Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
  8. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.

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