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

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

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I travel light; as light, / That is, as a man can travel who will / Still carry his body around because / Of its sentimental value.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.

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

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