Stephen Fry Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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 ...
You should give up.'
'Why?'
'For one thing, you'll live longer.'
'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
'Why?'
'For one thing, you'll live longer.'
'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify
Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
Over the years however, my nose grew and grew and it became apparent by the time I was fourteen that, like its owner, it was not growing straight.
Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
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.
Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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.
Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
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?
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.
As absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
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
A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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.
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.
It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, and without enjoying swearing.
You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.
Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky.
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.