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The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.
— Stephen Fry
All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say ...
— Stephen Fry
If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.
— Stephen Fry
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
— Stephen Fry
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
— Stephen Fry
I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
— Stephen Fry
Since my earliest years I felt nothing but shame for the useless casing of flesh I inhabit.
— Stephen Fry
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.
— Stephen Fry
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
— James McAvoy
Better sexy and racy
Than sexist and racist — Stephen Fry
Than sexist and racist — Stephen Fry
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
— Stephen Fry
I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly ...
— Stephen Fry
Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky.
— Stephen Fry
My mother has an absolute passion for sour fruit and can strip a gooseberry bush quicker than a priest can strip a choirboy.
— Stephen Fry
I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
— Stephen Merchant
Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.
— Stephen Fry
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
— Stephen Fry
Mental health is one of the last great taboos.
— Stephen Fry
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
— Stephen Fry
Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else
— Stephen Fry
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.
— Stephen Fry
Other people's tears were more than Adrian could cope with. Did you put an arm round them? Did you pretend not to notice?
— Stephen Fry
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
— Stephen Fry
When you do not understand how something works it is perhaps natural to question and to doubt.
— Stephen Fry
I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.
— Stephen Fry
There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.
— Stephen Fry
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
— Stephen Fry
There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
— Stephen Fry
You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.
— Stephen Fry
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
— Stephen Fry
It was a Tuesday in February. Many my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?
— Stephen Fry
The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians
— Stephen Fry
Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.
— Stephen Fry
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
— Stephen Fry
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.
— Stephen Fry
Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use? — Stephen Fry
What kind of pen do you use? — Stephen Fry
Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.
— Stephen Fry
My parents were marvelously educated people.
— Stephen Fry
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.
— Stephen Fry
I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.
— Stephen Fry
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
— Scroobius Pip
Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
— Stephen Fry
The other man's arse is always cleaner!
— Stephen Fry
The puzzle that besets me is best expressed by the following statements. a: None of what follows ever happened b: All of what follows is entirely true
— Stephen Fry
I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.
— Stephen Fry
Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!
— Stephen Fry
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
— Stephen Fry
A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.
— Stephen Fry
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
— Stephen Fry
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
— Stephen Fry
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
— Stephen Fry
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
— Stephen Fry
The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic.
— Stephen Fry
I have Van Gogh's ear for music
— Stephen Fry
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can't
— Stephen Fry
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
— Stephen Fry
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
— Stephen Fry
Not one word of the following is true
— Stephen Fry
A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.
— Stephen Fry
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
— Stephen Fry
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
— Stephen Fry
As absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
— Stephen Fry
And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.
— Stephen Fry
My real dissatisfaction is with my dissatisfaction. How dare I be so discontent? How dare I? Or being discontent why cannot I shut up about it?
— Stephen Fry
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
— Stephen Fry
There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.
— Stephen Fry
Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.
— Stephen Fry
I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
— Stephen Fry
Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.
— Stephen Fry
It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.
— Stephen Fry
wisdom is the ability to cope
— Stephen Fry
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
— Stephen Fry
Could do better' is a meaningless conclusion. 'Could be happier' is the only one that counts.
— Stephen Fry
I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
— Stephen Fry
My first words, as I was being born [ ... ] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
— Stephen Fry
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
— Stephen Fry
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
— Stephen Fry