Christopher Fry Quotes

"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
(Related: Life, Time, Existence, First, Want)

"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Disgrace, Public, School)

"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Home)

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

"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Comedy, Eternity, Tragedy)

"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
(Related: Life, Time, Existence, First, Want)

"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Supernatural, Woman)

"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Faith, Truth, Comedy, Despair)

"Coffee in England is just toasted milk."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Coffee, England)

"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Death, May, Understanding)

"The dark is light enough."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Light)

"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Imagination, Truth, Eye)