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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 9 total Christopher Fry quotes in our collection. Christopher Fry is known for saying 'In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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

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

Christopher Fry

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

Christopher Fry

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