Christopher Fry Quotes

Christopher Fry was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, especially The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Wikipedia

✵ 18. December 1907 – 30. June 2005

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Famous Christopher Fry Quotes

“The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.”

Christopher Fry

Thomas Mendip, in The Lady's Not for Burning, act 3 (1949)

“Coffee in England is just toasted milk.”

Christopher Fry

New York Post, November 29, 1962

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement… says heaven and earth in one word… speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It 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

Time, New York, April 3, 1950

“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

"Comedy," Vogue, January 1951

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