List of Christopher Fry Quotes

In Our Plain Defects We Already Know The Brotherhood Of Man.

Religion Has Made An Honest Woman Of The Supernatural, And We Won't Have It Kicking Over The Traces Again.

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.

Coffee In England Is Just Toasted Milk.

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.

It's Always Our Touches Of Vanity That Manage To Betray Us.

The Lines Marking A Penalty Area Are A Disgrace To The Playing Fields Of A Public School.

Where In This Small-talking World Can I Find A Longitude With No Platitude?

The Skirts Of The Gods Drag In Our Mud. We Feel The Touch And Take It To Be A Kiss.

How Can We Be Scrupulous In A Life Which, From Birth Onwards, Is So Determined To Wring Us Dry Of Any Serenity At All?

Equality Is A Mortuary Word.

Day's Work Is Still To Do, Whatever The Day's Doom.