Christopher Fry

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

“They say one thing and another thing and both at once;”

— Christopher Fry

“Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.”

— Christopher Fry

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

— Christopher Fry

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

— Christopher Fry

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

— Christopher Fry

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

— Christopher Fry

“We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as…

— Christopher Fry

“Mother, I make it known publicly: I'm tired of my little brother. Will you please Give him to some charity?”

— Christopher Fry

“MARGARET Do I seem composed, sufficiently placid and unmotherly? ALIZON Altogether, except that your earring Trembles a little. MARGARET It's always our…

— Christopher Fry

“Madam, if I were Herod in the middle Of the massacre of the innocents, I'd pause Just to consider the confusion of…

— Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word .…

— Christopher Fry

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and…

— Christopher Fry

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

— Christopher Fry

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to…

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

“My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?”

— Christopher Fry

“It really is Beyond the limit of respectable superstition To confuse my voice with a peacock's.”

— Christopher Fry

“A good old custom. Always fornicate Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry