Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry
Christopher Frywas an English poet and 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 December 1907
Christopher Fry quotes about
moon birth-rate aphrodisiac
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate
wings understanding may
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
world persuasion
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
class mortuary
Equality is a mortuary word.
differences victory defeat
Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
school lines fields
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
morning memories sleep
If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.
vanity betray manage
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
hysteria one-day bud
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
serenity dry determined
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?
nature conclusion incomplete
How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.
work doom stills
Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.
religion honest-woman kicking
Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.
dark light enough
The dark is light enough.