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
bursts cross double head open run
Run on, keep your head down, cross at the double / The bursts of open day between the nights.
halos virtue clean
What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
world permit fulfillment
Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.
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.
differences victory defeat
Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
hysteria one-day bud
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
nature conclusion incomplete
How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.
religion honest-woman kicking
Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.
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.