Theodore Sturgeon
American speculative fiction writer (1918-1985)
Christopher Frywas an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, especially The Lady’s Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Christopher Frywas an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, especially The Lady’s Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.
13 Quotes by Christopher Fry
- 1.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 2.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 3.
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 4.
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 5.
What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 6.
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 FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 7.
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 8.
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 FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 9.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 10.
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 11.
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 FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 12.
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we’re lost in look as much like home as we can.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright
- 13.
The dark is light enough.
Christopher FryEnglish poet and playwright