I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as… — 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
I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I hope you forgive the unedifying sight of my struggle to express some of the truths of my inner self and to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly possible to live a life from cradle to grave that is entirely dishonest.One might never reveal one's true identity,… — 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
