Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? Christopher Fry More Quotes by Christopher Fry More Quotes From Christopher Fry 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 light men travel Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom. Christopher Fry doom stills work Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us. Christopher Fry permit fulfillment world Equality is a mortuary word. Christopher Fry mortuary class How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder? Christopher Fry navigation insecurity men How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all? Christopher Fry serenity dry determined The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss. Christopher Fry mud kissing god 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. Christopher Fry play running life Coffee in England is just toasted milk. Christopher Fry espresso milk coffee It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. Christopher Fry betray manage vanity The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. Christopher Fry lines fields school It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world. Christopher Fry spirit men world Religion Christopher Fry honest-woman kicking religion 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. Christopher Fry frustration ambition animal 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. Christopher Fry ends trouble The dark is light enough. Christopher Fry light enough dark 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 half attention giving How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. Christopher Fry incomplete conclusion nature What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens. Christopher Fry madness happens In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man. Christopher Fry defects brotherhood-of-man men
