| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24117 |
| QUOTATION: | The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we’re born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Christopher Fry (b. 1907), British playwright. “Comedy,” Vogue (January 1951). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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