It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Thalia The finest, funniest, friendliest Muse of all, THALIA supervised the comic arts and idyllic poetry. Her name derives from the Greek… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. — 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
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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 Image
