“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, possibly. All three! A… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by… — 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
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