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
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.
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.
ambition animal frustration
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.
madness happens
What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.
travel men light
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
talking world platitudes
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
corner life plays run turned
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.