If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Could do better’ is a meaningless conclusion. ‘Could be happier’ is the only one that counts.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The point is that a pleasure which leaves you satisfied stops being a pleasure the moment it has been enjoyed. You are… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
“Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to side with… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
“The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. — Stephen Fry Copy Share
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
