The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Nothing prayed for – it is life’s strictest and least graceful rule – comes to you at the time of praying.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great… — 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
“by the time your offspring have reached four and five it is far too late to be looking for schools: demand for… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or no… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“... Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas... And yet, oh, and yet,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or… — 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
[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die,… — 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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