Christopher Fry Quotes

"I travel light; as light, / That is, as a man can travel who will / Still carry his body around because / Of its sentimental value."
-Christopher Fry

"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
-Christopher Fry in Comedy quotes.

"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
-Christopher Fry in Tragedy quotes.

"I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose."
-Christopher Fry

"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
-Christopher Fry

"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."
-Christopher Fry

"Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor."
-Christopher Fry

"What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
-Christopher Fry