Quotes by Christopher Fry - Page 1

The dark is light enough.
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Dark
Enough
Light
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Equality is a mortuary word.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Class
Mortuary
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Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Coffee
England
Espresso
Milk
Toasted
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Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
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Honest
Supernatural
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Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.
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Work
Doom
Stills
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How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
Christopher Fry / Poet
Men
Insecurity
Navigation
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Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Hypocrite
Moving
Way
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Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.
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Fulfillment
Permit
World
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It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
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Betray
Manage
Vanity
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In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Men
Brotherhood Of Man
Defects
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Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Men
Language
Prose And Poetry
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One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
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Bud
Hysteria
One Day
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What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Cleaning
Halos
Virtue
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What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
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Funny
Clean
More
Thing
After
Only
Halo
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Time
Eternity
Eternity Of Life
Tragedy
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Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
Christopher Fry / Poet
Platitudes
Talking
World
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Appreciation
Smile
Faith
Truth
Comedy
Despair
Escape
Narrow
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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Imagination
Eye
Wide
Leads
Vividly
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The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.
Christopher Fry / Poet
God
Kissing
Mud
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Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
Christopher Fry / Poet
Motivational
Differences
Victory
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What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Happens
Madness
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How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Nature
Conclusion
Incomplete
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The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Disgrace
Fields
Lines
Public School
School
Marking
Penalty
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There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
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Fiction
Reality
Thinking
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The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Home
Looks
Lost
Wherever
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I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
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Causes
Heart
Lost
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
Christopher Fry / Poet
May
Understanding
Wings
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Death
Birth
Brushes
May
Understanding
Window
Touch
Between
Moth
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It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Men
Spirit
World
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Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Religion
Honest Woman
Kicking
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We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Persuasion
World
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If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Morning
Memories
Sleep
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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 the end of it.
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Ends
Trouble
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How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?
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Determined
Dry
Serenity
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The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate
Christopher Fry / Poet
Birth Rate
Moon
Rising
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I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Men
Travel
Light
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I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Existence
First Time
Life Time Look
Corner
Turned
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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 it for the first time.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Experience
Life
Running
Play
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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 it for the first time.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Commonplace
First Time
Life Time Look
Corner
Plays
Turned
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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Men
Poetry
Heaven
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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 give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Attention
Giving
Half
Prose
Seeming
Virtue
Twice
Drawback
Half The Time
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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 make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.
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Artist
Writing
Zest
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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 the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.
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Hands
Mysterious Things
Real
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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 soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?
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Men
Soul
Years
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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 wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.
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Life
Truth
Mean
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The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.
Christopher Fry / Poet
Ambition
Animal
Frustration
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