Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
About Christopher Fry
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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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
English poet and playwright
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
English poet and playwright
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
English poet and playwright
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
English poet and playwright
What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.
English poet and playwright
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.
English poet and playwright
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
English poet and playwright
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.
English poet and playwright
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
English poet and playwright
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
English poet and playwright
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.
English poet and playwright
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we’re lost in look as much like home as we can.
English poet and playwright
The dark is light enough.
English poet and playwright