Christopher Fry quotes

Christopher Fry was an English playwright and poet, celebrated for his witty verse dramas. His works, including "The Lady's Not for Burning," helped revive poetic drama in mid-20th century Britain. He was praised for his lyrical style and influence on modern theater. Here are 14 of his quotes:

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

Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry

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

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

Christopher Fry

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

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. It 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