Christopher Fry

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

— Christopher Fry

“Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

“I have at least three virtues. How many have you got?”

— Christopher Fry

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

— Christopher Fry

“The trees were as bright as a shower of broken glass.”

— 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

“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

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— 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

“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

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

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were…

— Christopher Fry

“How do you know that out there, in the day or night According to latitude, the entire world Isn't wanting to be…

— Christopher Fry

Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the…

— 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

“If you had such a secret, I And all my fiendish flock, my incubi, Succubi, imps and cacodemons, would have leapt Out…

— Christopher Fry

“When he was born he gave an algebraic Cry; at one glance measured the cubic content Of that ivory cone his mother's…

— Christopher Fry

“I know I am not A practical person; legal matters and so forth Are Greek to me, except, of course, \ That…

— Christopher Fry

“If only inflicted pain could be as contagious As a plague, you might use it more sparingly.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

“ALIZON They told me no one was here. RICHARD It would be me they meant.”

— Christopher Fry

“You have such little hands. I knew I should love you.”

— Christopher Fry

“I have come Here to have the protection of your laughter.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry