Quotes by Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry

An artist’s sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.

Artist

Writing

Zest

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

Appreciation

Comedy

Despair

Day’s work is still to do, Whatever the day’s doom.

Doom

Stills

Work

Equality is a mortuary word.

Class

Mortuary

How can a man learn navigation Where there’s no rudder?

Insecurity

Men

Navigation

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Determined

Dry

Serenity

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

Conclusion

Incomplete

Nature

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

Causes

Heart

Lost

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.

Life

Play

Running

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

Brotherhood Of Man

Defects

Men

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Brotherhood Of Man

Bud

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Cleaning

Comedy

Conclusion

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Defects

Despair

Determined

Differences

Doom

Dry

Enough

Fields

Frustration

God

Halos

Heart

Heaven

Honest Woman

Hysteria

Incomplete

Insecurity

Kicking

Kissing

Life

Light

Lines

Lost

Mean

Men

Moon

Mortuary

Motivational

Mud

Nature

Navigation

One Day

Platitudes

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Religion

Rising

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Quotes by Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry

An artist’s sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.

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

Day’s work is still to do, Whatever the day’s doom.

Equality is a mortuary word.

How can a man learn navigation Where there’s no rudder?

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

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

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.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

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