Fry: Plays Three
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“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
“I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.”
Source: Selected Plays
Source: Fry: Plays Three
“In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.”
Source: Fry: Plays Two
“Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”
Source: The Early Days
“Equality is a mortuary word.”
Source: Fry: Plays Two
“In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.”
Source: The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy
“It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.”
Source: Fry: Plays One
“What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”
“There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.”
Source: A Yard of Sun
“One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.”
Source: Fry: Plays One
“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”
“The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.”
“Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.”
Source: Selected Plays
Source: Fry: Plays Three
“Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?”
Source: Plays Three
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing”
Source: Fry: Plays Three
“Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?”
“The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.”
“The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.”
Source: Plays Three
“Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.”
Source: Plays Three
“What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.”
Source: A Phoenix Too Frequent
Source: The Firstborn
“How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.”
Source: Fry: Plays Two
“Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.”
Source: Fry: Plays Three