Christopher Fry

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

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.

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.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

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

Comedy is an escape not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

The dark is light enough.

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.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever were lost in look as much like home as we can.

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

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?