--- title: "28 Ifs Quotes By Stephen Fry" description: "28 Ifs quotes by Stephen Fry. Plus more from Stephen Fry and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/stephen-fry-573_bags_nudity-is-a-deep-worry-if-you-have-a-bod_1018953.png" --- > [Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/nudity-is-a-deep-worry-if-you-have-a-body-like-a-bin-bag-full-of/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/stephen-fry-573_bags_nudity-is-a-deep-worry-if-you-have-a-bod_1018953.png) > [The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-most-important-philosophy-i-think-is-that-even-if-it-isn-t-true/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/stephen-fry-573_afterlife_the-most-important-philosophy-i-think-is_697507.png) > [If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-ignorance-is-bliss-why-aren-t-there-more-happy-people-in-the-world/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed8/stephen-fry-573_being-irish_if-ignorance-is-bliss-why-aren-t-there-m_2390579.png) > [If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to-be-better-spirited-than-to/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/stephen-fry-573_god_if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to_1061397.png) > [Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/money-no-longer-has-any-meaning-civilization-is-coming-to-an-end-if/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/stephen-fry-573_civilization_money-no-longer-has-any-meaning-civiliza_2891567.png) > [And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/and-of-course-you-are-mad-if-by-a-madman-we-mean-a-mind-that/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/stephen-fry-573_civilized_and-of-course-you-are-mad-if-by-a-madman_1343885.png) > [All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/all-the-cold-reading-clairvoyants-and-the-nonsensical-astrologers-and/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/stephen-fry-573_absurd_all-the-cold-reading-clairvoyants-and-th_1992375.png) > [The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-english-language-is-an-arsenal-of-weapons-if-you-are-going-to/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/stephen-fry-573_arsenal_the-english-language-is-an-arsenal-of-we_342161.png) > [If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-i-were-to-believe-in-a-god-l-would-believe-in-gods-i-think/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/stephen-fry-573_believe_if-i-were-to-believe-in-a-god-l-would-be_230419.png) > [If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-there-is-a-sort-of-national-american-emotion-i-would-call-it/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/stephen-fry-573_confusion_if-there-is-a-sort-of-national-american_1430819.png) > [As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/as-if-a-device-can-function-if-it-has-no-style-as-if-a-device-can-be/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/stephen-fry-573_beauty_as-if-a-device-can-function-if-it-has-no_1405685.png) > [If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-you-think-you-re-going-to-have-an-eternity-in-which-you-can-talk/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0a/stephen-fry-573_bother_if-you-think-you-re-going-to-have-an-ete_189800.png) > [If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-you-know-someone-who-s-depressed-please-resolve-never-to-ask-them/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a3/stephen-fry-573_asks_if-you-know-someone-who-s-depressed-plea_136035.png) > [Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/alternative-medicine-people-call-themselves-holistic-and-say-it-s-the/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/stephen-fry-573_alternative-medicine_alternative-medicine-people-call-themsel_2890089.jpg) > [I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-believe-in-kindness-and-niceness-and-lots-of-spiritual-things-but/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ab/stephen-fry-573_adventure_i-believe-in-kindness-and-niceness-and-l_2471076.jpg) > [There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/there-is-something-in-the-american-project-something-in-simple/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12f/stephen-fry-573_belief_there-is-something-in-the-american-proje_2580716.jpg) > [Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/great-and-good-men-and-women-stirred-sugar-into-their-coffee-knowing/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/stephen-fry-573_ancestor_great-and-good-men-and-women-stirred-sug_2387111.jpg) > [Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/weather-is-real-it-is-absolutely-real-when-it-rains-it-rains-you-get/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d2/stephen-fry-573_enough_weather-is-real-it-is-absolutely-real-wh_788375.jpg) > [The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-greeks-understood-perfectly-that-if-there-were-divine-beings-they/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/588/stephen-fry-573_capricious_the-greeks-understood-perfectly-that-if_154376.jpg) > [Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/norwich-is-a-fine-city-none-finer-if-there-is-another-city-in-the/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27b/stephen-fry-573_alumni_norwich-is-a-fine-city-none-finer-if-the_443089.jpg) > [If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-you-are-hungry-for-food-you-are-prepared-to-hunt-high-and-low-for/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34a/stephen-fry-573_care_if-you-are-hungry-for-food-you-are-prepa_1412046.png) > [I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-must-brave-the-interior-of-the-most-tawdry-and-literally-trumpery/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/stephen-fry-573_boardwalks_i-must-brave-the-interior-of-the-most-ta_1825259.png) > [Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/estate-agents-you-can-t-live-with-them-you-can-t-live-with-them-the/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/stephen-fry-573_agents_estate-agents-you-can-t-live-with-them-y_1772829.jpg) > [If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-we-empower-ourselves-with-responsibility-over-our-actions/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/stephen-fry-573_action_if-we-empower-ourselves-with-responsibil_2937756.jpg) > [History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/history-is-not-the-story-of-strangers-aliens-from-another-realm-it-is/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/886/stephen-fry-573_abstraction_history-is-not-the-story-of-strangers-al_1721578.png) > [I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-met-too-frankly-preposterous-if-it-weren-t-for-their-banal-evil/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea4/stephen-fry-573_bigger_i-met-too-frankly-preposterous-if-it-wer_2204909.png) > [Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/oscar-wilde-quite-rightly-said-all-art-is-useless-and-that-may-sound/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95c/stephen-fry-573_art_oscar-wilde-quite-rightly-said-all-art-i_499771.png) > [Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/humanism-inspires-a-lot-of-enthusiasm-for-everyday-life-and-urges/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/stephen-fry-573_afterlife_humanism-inspires-a-lot-of-enthusiasm-fo_1282339.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Stephen Fry > [“...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/catholic-versus-protestant-essentially-it-s-that-kind-of-fight-and-it/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/how-dare-you-how-dare-you-create-a-world-in-which-there-is-such/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [“Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to side with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/look-at-the-kind-of-people-who-most-object-to-the-childishness-and/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [“The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-object-of-love-should-feel-honoured-or-flattered-responsible-in/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-only-people-who-are-obsessed-with-food-are-anorexics-and-the/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/to-me-reason-is-as-spiritual-as-anything-else-the-beauty-of-reason/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-stranger-might-laugh-and-seem-to-enjoy-the-writing-but-you-hug-to/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [“The future is a much bigger deal than the past,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-future-is-a-much-bigger-deal-than-the-past/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-gather-a-repulsive-nobody-writing-in-a-paper-no-one-of-any-decency/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being-a-lead-actor-in-films/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/because-let-s-face-it-i-do-not-get-offered-the-parts-that-brad-pitt/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-will-defend-the-absolute-value-of-mozart-over-miley-cyrus-of-course/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/you-can-t-just-say-there-is-a-god-because-the-world-is-beautiful-you/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-you-know-someone-who-s-depressed-please-resolve-never-to-ask-them/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-s-as-if-scientists-exert-every-effort-of-will-they-possess/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/stephen-fry/#itemlist", "name": "28 Ifs Quotes By Stephen Fry", "numberOfItems": 28, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/nudity-is-a-deep-worry-if-you-have-a-body-like-a-bin-bag-full-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/stephen-fry-573_bags_nudity-is-a-deep-worry-if-you-have-a-bod_1018953.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/stephen-fry-573_bags_nudity-is-a-deep-worry-if-you-have-a-bod_1018953.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/stephen-fry-573_bags_nudity-is-a-deep-worry-if-you-have-a-bod_1018953.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-most-important-philosophy-i-think-is-that-even-if-it-isn-t-true/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/stephen-fry-573_afterlife_the-most-important-philosophy-i-think-is_697507.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/stephen-fry-573_afterlife_the-most-important-philosophy-i-think-is_697507.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/stephen-fry-573_afterlife_the-most-important-philosophy-i-think-is_697507.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no…” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-ignorance-is-bliss-why-aren-t-there-more-happy-people-in-the-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed8/stephen-fry-573_being-irish_if-ignorance-is-bliss-why-aren-t-there-m_2390579.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed8/stephen-fry-573_being-irish_if-ignorance-is-bliss-why-aren-t-there-m_2390579.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed8/stephen-fry-573_being-irish_if-ignorance-is-bliss-why-aren-t-there-m_2390579.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to-be-better-spirited-than-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/stephen-fry-573_god_if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to_1061397.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/stephen-fry-573_god_if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to_1061397.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/stephen-fry-573_god_if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to_1061397.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Money no longer has any meaning. 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