Christopher Fry Quotes

English - Playwright | December 18, 1907 - June 30, 2005

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

Christopher Fry

DeathWindowUnderstandingBirthMay

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

Christopher Fry

FunnyMoreCleanHaloKeepOnly

The dark is light enough.

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LightEnoughDark

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

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TruthImaginationEyeMoreSeeUs

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

LifeTimeLookWantRunFirst Time

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

LifeTimeLookWantRunFirst Time

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

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FaithTruthComedyEscapeDespair

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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TimePoetryAttentionYouSayTwice

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

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MomentComedyTragedyEternityEvery

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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HomeBestLookLostWhereverLike

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

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WomanHonestSupernaturalMade

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

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SchoolFieldsPlayingLinesPublic

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