All Christopher Fry Quotes
- The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can. Best
- The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss. Drag
- Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for… All
- Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us. Fulfillment
- How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder? Insecurity
- What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens. Funny
- How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all? All
- How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. Conclusion
- Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom. Day
- 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… Able
- The dark is light enough. Dark
- I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose. All
- Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. Comedy
- Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement. Amazement
- Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks… Amazement
- I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value. Body
- I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it… Commonplaces
- Has made an honest woman of the supernatural. Honest
- Try thinking of love or something, Amor vincit insomnia. Amor