Christopher Fry

“You may be decay and a platitude Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.”

— Christopher Fry

“For God's sake hang me, before I love that woman!”

— Christopher Fry

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

— Christopher Fry

Try thinking of love or something, Amor vincit insomnia.

— Christopher Fry

“He picked on his rags and his bones as love Picks upon hearts, he with an eye to profit And love with…

— Christopher Fry

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which…

— Christopher Fry

“I am very much in love with something; What it may be I can't remember; It will come to me. That was…

— Christopher Fry

“Do you want our spirits to hobble out of their graves Enduring twinges of hopeless human affection As long as death shall…

— Christopher Fry

“Your life, sir, is propelled By a dream of the fear of having nightmares; your love Is the fear of being alone;…

— Christopher Fry

“... we have given you a world as contradictory as a female, as cabbalistic as a male, a conscienceless hermaphrodite who plays…

— Christopher Fry

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its…

— Christopher Fry

“jennet. Are you doing this to save me? thomas. You natter my powers, My sweet; you're too much a woman. But if…

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

Equality is a mortuary word.

— Christopher Fry

“God bless you, in case you sneeze.”

— Christopher Fry

“I defend myself against pain and death by pain And death,”

— Christopher Fry

“I've only one small silver night to spend So show me no luxuries. It will be enough If you spare me a…

— Christopher Fry

“You let the fairies fox you while the devil Does you.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if…

— Christopher Fry