Facts about Christopher Fry

Occup.Playwright
FromEngland
BornDecember 18, 1907
DiedJune 30, 2005
Aged97 years

Summary

Christopher Fry was a famous Playwright from England, who lived between December 18, 1907 and June 30, 2005. He/she became 97 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism. Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by Christopher.

13 Famous quotes by Christopher Fry

Small: Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly
"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly"
Small: Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing"
Small: Has made an honest woman of the supernatural
"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural"
Small: The best thing we can do is to make wherever were lost in look as much like home as we can
"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can"
Small: In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner
"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"
Small: Coffee in England is just toasted milk
"Coffee in England is just toasted milk"
Small: The dark is light enough
"The dark is light enough"
Small: What after all, is a halo? Its only one more thing to keep clean
"What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean"
Small: The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school"
Small: Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith
"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith"
Small: I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run i
"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time"
Small: Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, i
"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"
Small: In tragedy every moment is eternity in comedy, eternity is a moment
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment"