Christopher Fry Quotes
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The dark is light enough.
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The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
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What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
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Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
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One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
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Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?
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Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
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Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.
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It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
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Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.
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Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.
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It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.
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The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate
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An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.
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I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.
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Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.
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We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
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Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.
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The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.
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How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.
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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
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There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
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In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
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Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
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