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Top 10 Christopher Fry Quotes

  1. In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
  2. Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
  3. Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.
  4. Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
  5. I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
  6. 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.
  7. One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
  8. Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
  9. Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
  10. I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

Christopher Fry Short Quotes

  • How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
  • BetweenOur birth and death we may touch understandingAs a moth brushes a window with its wing.
  • Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.
  • The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
  • Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.
  • What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
  • Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
  • There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
  • Equality is a mortuary word.
  • Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry Quotes About Life

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. — Christopher Fry

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 is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me. — Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — 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

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? — 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 moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. — Christopher Fry

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

I sometimes thinkHis critical judgement is so exquisiteIt leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion. — Christopher Fry

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

The human heart can go to the lengths of God. Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.Thank God our time is now when wrongComes up to face us everywhere,Never to leave us till we takeThe longest stride of soul we humans ever took.Affairs are now soul size.The enterprise Is exploration into God.Where are you making for? It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity — Christopher Fry

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

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

The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings. — Christopher Fry

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

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again. — Christopher Fry

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. — Christopher Fry

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

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. — 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 is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens. — Christopher Fry

The dark is light enough. — Christopher Fry

Life Lessons by Christopher Fry

  1. Christopher Fry taught us to always strive for excellence and never settle for mediocrity. He believed that if we are passionate about something, we should never be afraid to take risks and challenge ourselves.
  2. He also taught us to be resilient in the face of adversity and to never give up on our dreams. He believed that if we work hard and stay focused, we can achieve anything we set our minds to.
  3. Finally, Christopher Fry taught us to appreciate the beauty of life and to never take it for granted. He believed that life should be lived to the fullest and that we should always strive to make the most of every moment.
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