Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry
Christopher Frywas an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 December 1907
life mean eye
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.
men years soul
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?
life running play
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.
coffee espresso milk
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
travel men light
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
madness happens
What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.
trouble ends
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.
men brotherhood-of-man defects
In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
ambition animal frustration
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.
dark light enough
The dark is light enough.
giving attention half
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.
religion honest-woman kicking
Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.
men world spirit
It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.
work doom stills
Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.