More - Christopher Fry Quotes

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Christopher Fry

 

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry

 Comedy English Playwright

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

Christopher Fry

 Birth

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.

Christopher Fry

 

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

Christopher Fry

 

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

 Comedy English Playwright

What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean

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

 English Playwright

I sometimes think/ His critical judgement is so exquisite/ It leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion.

Christopher Fry

 

Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.

Christopher Fry