Christopher Fry Quotes

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

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• I hope I’ve done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat. A spade is never so merely a spade as the word Spade would imply.

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

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• What after all Is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.

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• The Lady’s Not for Burning.

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

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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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  Tags in Between, Understanding

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

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• Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

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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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  Tags in Existence, Look, Turned

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

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  Tags in Imagination, Leads

• 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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• 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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• The dark is light enough.

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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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  Tags in Best, Thing, Lost

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

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  Tags in School, Playing, Public

• The best thing we can do is to make wherever we’re lost look as much like home as we can.

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Christopher Fry (17)

Birth:	18th December, 1907
Death:	30th June, 2005
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright

About

Christopher Fry was born in Bristol, England. He was an English 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. His professional career began to take off when he was commissioned by the vicar of Steyning, West Sussex, to write a play celebrating the local saint, Cuthman of Steyning, which became The Boy With A Cart in 1938.

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