R M Hare Quotes

#1. No one but a fool is always right.

David Hare

#2. Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

Augustus William Hare

#3. Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Augustus Hare

#4. Tess focuses on Cyclops's placid, one-eyes face. He lost one of his black button eyes year ago, but she wouldn't let Mrs. O'Hare replace it. She said it made him more interesting, and changed his name from Barnabus.

Jessica Spotswood

#5. How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

Augustus William Hare

#6. Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Augustus Hare

#7. Children always turn to the light.

David Hare

#8. A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Augustus Hare

#9. A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

Robert D. Hare

#10. People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Augustus William Hare

#11. The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

Augustus William Hare

#12. Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Jay Griffiths

#13. Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,
one pure, the other impure.

Augustus William Hare

#14. We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it. With you, when something is right, it's never enough. You don't value happiness. You don't even realize. Because you always want more. (She

David Hare

#15. Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

David Hare

#16. The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, whenever he has a feeling that he ought to do 'x', to say on this ground that he ought to do 'x'.

R.M. Hare

#17. ...our ultimate moral principles can become so completely accepted by us, that we treat them, not as universal imperatives but as matters of fact; they have the same obstinate indubitability.

R.M. Hare

#18. I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

David Hare

#19. Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

Aesop

#20. Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Augustus Hare

#21. To cook your hare you must first catch it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#22. There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

Stephen Daldry

#23. I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Denis O'Hare

#24. Dr. Robert Hare, one of the foremost researchers on sociopathy, believes that a sociopath is four times more likely to be at the top of the corporate ladder than in the janitor's closet, due to the close match between the personality traits of sociopaths and the unusual demands of high-powered jobs.

M.E. Thomas

#25. I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

Denis O'Hare

#26. I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

David Hare

#27. When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.

Brian Hare

#28. It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Augustus Hare

#29. Were you hare when I was fox?

Tim Buckley

#30. Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Augustus Hare

#31. You don't have to be there to be there.

Janet Evanovich

#32. If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.

George Herbert

#33. Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

Augustus Hare

#34. The Dark is a word for the ignorant. The people hare are Gifted. Different powers, different abilities. But Gifted. Like you.

Anthony Ryan