Christopher Fry Quotes

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

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.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

The dark is light enough.

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Equality is a mortuary word.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

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.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

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

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

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?

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

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

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.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

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

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

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.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

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.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?