If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a… — 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
If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant… — 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
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the… — 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
All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies…… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something… — 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
