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13 quotes by Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

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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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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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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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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... →

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What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

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I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

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Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

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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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The dark is light enough.

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Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

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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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