Top 40 Christopher Fry Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Christopher Fry

2. “Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

4. “The dark is light enough.”

— Christopher Fry

5. “How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.”

— Christopher Fry

6. “How can a man learn navigation Where there’s no rudder?”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

8. “There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we’ve arrived at.”

— Christopher Fry

9. “Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.”

— Christopher Fry

10. “Coffee in England is just toasted milk.”

— Christopher Fry

11. “Life is a hypocrite if I can’t live the way it moves me.”

— Christopher Fry

12. “The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate.”

— Christopher Fry

13. “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.”

— Christopher Fry

14. “Equality is a mortuary word.”

— Christopher Fry

15. “Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?”

— Christopher Fry

16. “The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we’re lost in Look as much like home as we can.”

— Christopher Fry

17. “Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.”

— Christopher Fry

18. “We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.”

— Christopher Fry

19. “Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

22. “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

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

— Christopher Fry

24. “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

25. “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.”

— Christopher Fry

26. “It’s always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.”

— Christopher Fry

27. “The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.”

— Christopher Fry

28. “Day’s work is still to do, Whatever the day’s doom.”

— Christopher Fry

29. “You have cut yourself a shape on the air, which may be My scar.”

— Christopher Fry

30. “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.”

— Christopher Fry

31. “How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?”

— Christopher Fry

32. “Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry

34. “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

35. “It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.”

— Christopher Fry

36. “We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we’re lost in as much like home as we can.”

— Christopher Fry

37. “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

38. “Am I supposed to be merely exercising my tongue Or am I being listened to?”

— Christopher Fry

39. “Thomas, only another Fifty years or so and then I promise to let you go.”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Christopher Fry