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
world permit fulfillment
Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.
home looks lost
The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.
real mysterious-things hands
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.
eye imagination wide
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
men prose-and-poetry language
Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.
heart causes lost
I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
halos virtue clean
What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
time eternity-of-life tragedy
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
writing artist zest
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.