Christopher Fry Quotes

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• Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
• Equality is a mortuary word.
• In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
• 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…
• If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.
• It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
• An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to…
• What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
• There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
• One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
• Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
• The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
• Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.
• We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
• Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
• Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of…
• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the…
• The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate
• Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
• Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

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