“We all know that drugs, alcohol and tobacco are Bad, but work, we are brought up to believe, is Good. As a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in… — 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
You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than… — 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
“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
As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family. — 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
“...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 such apoplectic and bombastic bores? I should know, I often catch myself being one, and it isn’t pretty. I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should… — 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 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 the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have. — 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 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
