Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
- Christopher Fry
Truth, Faith, Comedy, Narrow
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
- Christopher Fry
Coffee, England, Milk, Toasted
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
- Christopher Fry
Death, Moth, May, Wing
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
Give, Prose, Seeming, Half The Time
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
- Christopher Fry
Best, Lost, Like, Wherever
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
- Christopher Fry
School, Public, Area, Marking
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
Want, Plays, Turned, Commonplace
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
- Christopher Fry
Eye, Always, Which, Leads
What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
- Christopher Fry
Funny, More, Keep, Halo
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
- Christopher Fry
Comedy, Eternity, Every, Tragedy
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.
- Christopher Fry
Existence, Want, Turned, Corner
The dark is light enough.
- Christopher Fry
Light, Enough, Dark
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
- Christopher Fry
Woman, Honest, Made, Supernatural
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