Christopher Fry Quotes

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.

I tell you, </br> Miss, I knows an undesirable character </br> When I see one; I've been one myself for years.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

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, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

I hear </br> A gay modulating anguish, rather like music.

What is official </br> Is incontestable. It undercuts </br> The problematical world and sells us life </br> At a discount.

I travel light; as light, </br> That is, as a man can travel who will </br> Still carry his body around because </br> Of its sentimental value.

I hope </br> I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat, </br> A spade is never so merely a spade as the word </br> Spade would imply.

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

The Great Bear is looking so geometrical </br> One would think that something or other could be proved.

The best </br> Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in </br> Look as much like home as we can.

What after all </br> Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Where in this small-talking world can I find </br> A longitude with no platitude?

Try thinking of love, or something. </br> Amor vincit insomnia.