Christopher FryThinkers

Coffee is, in England, just toasted milk.

Coffee is toasted milk.

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

Equality is a mortuary word.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

The Miracle is life itself.

The Moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac. divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry is able to say twice as much as prose in half the time while seeming to say half as much in twice the time

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

Virtue is overrated — a holy is nothing but one more thing to keep clean.