Christopher Fry Quotes - Page 2

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

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

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

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.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

Equality is a mortuary word.

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

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

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

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

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

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 in England is just toasted milk.

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.

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

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