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
nature conclusion incomplete
How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.
serenity dry determined
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?
hysteria one-day bud
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.
vanity betray manage
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
morning memories sleep
If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.
moving hypocrite way
Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.
school lines fields
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
differences victory defeat
Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
class mortuary
Equality is a mortuary word.
world persuasion
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
wings understanding may
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
moon birth-rate aphrodisiac
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate
thinking reality may
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
appreciation despair comedy
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.