Christopher Fry Quotes

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

Moment, Comedy, Tragedy

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

Truth, Eye, Leads

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

After, Keep, Clean

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

Faith, Truth, Comedy

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.
Christopher Fry

Life, Time, Run

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

Death, May, Between

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.
Christopher Fry

Time, Poetry, Give

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
Christopher Fry

Best, Home, Lost

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Christopher Fry

Coffee, England, Milk

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
Christopher Fry

Woman, Made, Honest

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.
Christopher Fry

Life, Time, Run

The dark is light enough.
Christopher Fry

Enough, Dark, Light

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

School, Playing, Public

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: December 18, 1907

Died: June 30, 2005

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