David Hare Quotes

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

If victory has a hundred fathers, it also brings forth a hundred advisors.

If you’re going to give objective advice, you’ve got to take the self interest out of the equation.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

We're constantly faced with decisions. A lot of times, the right ones take more work; it takes longer to see benefit: they're the long route.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Just do what you want, I don't think you should ever... pointers and tips from people is great, and it's good and I don't think you should ever shun down advice, but if you feel something's wrong, then you don't do it. And that's what I'd say.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Distrust interested advice.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

Decision equals destiny.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Teach your kids to make deplorable choices and hopefully they'll rebel and make the right ones.

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.