--- title: "17 Kind Quotes By Stephen Fry" description: "17 Kind quotes by Stephen Fry. Plus more from Stephen Fry and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/stephen-fry-573_benign_it-s-enough-to-be-benign-to-be-gentle-to_2186450.png" --- > [“It's enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-s-enough-to-be-benign-to-be-gentle-to-be-funny-to-be-kind/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/stephen-fry-573_benign_it-s-enough-to-be-benign-to-be-gentle-to_2186450.png) > [I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being-a-lead-actor-in-films-2/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/stephen-fry-573_actors_i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being_2882920.png) > [Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/atheism-is-not-just-about-not-believing-there-is-a-god-but-on-the/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/stephen-fry-573_assumption_atheism-is-not-just-about-not-believing_233454.png) > [It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-was-behaviour-that-i-thought-not-far-from-racism-sexism-or-any/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/stephen-fry-573_behaviour_it-was-behaviour-that-i-thought-not-far_1050027.png) > [Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/everything-had-been-based-on-a-kind-of-certainty-a-sense-of-man-at/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d2/stephen-fry-573_certainty_everything-had-been-based-on-a-kind-of-c_365583.png) > [We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/we-always-make-the-mistake-the-fatal-mistake-in-the-case-of-military/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3b/stephen-fry-573_cases_we-always-make-the-mistake-the-fatal-mis_2897301.png) > [I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-d-probably-want-to-teach-at-university-because-children-would-drive/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/stephen-fry-573_books_i-d-probably-want-to-teach-at-university_1276905.png) > [I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-shall-sustain-a-massive-erection-that-s-what-and-i-shan-t-be/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/stephen-fry-573_consequence_i-shall-sustain-a-massive-erection-that_3011542.png) > [A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/a-film-star-is-a-kind-of-public-monument-and-everyone-s-staring-at/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db4/stephen-fry-573_cinema_a-film-star-is-a-kind-of-public-monument_1521215.jpg) > [My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/my-first-meeting-with-you-only-confirmed-what-i-first-suspected-you/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ec/stephen-fry-573_charlatans_my-first-meeting-with-you-only-confirmed_237955.png) > [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) > [I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-suppose-the-thing-i-most-would-have-liked-to-have-known-or-been/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ca/stephen-fry-573_amiable_i-suppose-the-thing-i-most-would-have-li_3078578.jpg) > [I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-have-written-it-before-and-am-not-ashamed-to-write-it-again-without/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/stephen-fry-573_ashamed_i-have-written-it-before-and-am-not-asha_974358.png) > [Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/living-with-bipolar-schizophrenia-or-any-other-mental-condition-takes/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/stephen-fry-573_all-kinds_living-with-bipolar-schizophrenia-or-any_283365.jpg) > [Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/stupid-people-like-to-delude-themselves-that-while-they-may-not-be/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f35/stephen-fry-573_ability_stupid-people-like-to-delude-themselves_3039954.jpg) > [ \[On libraries\] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/on-libraries-what-s-great-about-them-is-that-anybody-can-go-into-them/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/stephen-fry-573_book_on-libraries-what-s-great-about-them-is_3046106.jpg) > [I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eeb/stephen-fry-573_actor_i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being_48280.png) ## Other authors on Kind ## 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/kind/stephen-fry/#itemlist", "name": "17 Kind Quotes By Stephen Fry", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It's enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-s-enough-to-be-benign-to-be-gentle-to-be-funny-to-be-kind/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/stephen-fry-573_benign_it-s-enough-to-be-benign-to-be-gentle-to_2186450.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/stephen-fry-573_benign_it-s-enough-to-be-benign-to-be-gentle-to_2186450.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/stephen-fry-573_benign_it-s-enough-to-be-benign-to-be-gentle-to_2186450.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being-a-lead-actor-in-films-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/stephen-fry-573_actors_i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being_2882920.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/stephen-fry-573_actors_i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being_2882920.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/stephen-fry-573_actors_i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being_2882920.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain…” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/atheism-is-not-just-about-not-believing-there-is-a-god-but-on-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/stephen-fry-573_assumption_atheism-is-not-just-about-not-believing_233454.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/stephen-fry-573_assumption_atheism-is-not-just-about-not-believing_233454.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/stephen-fry-573_assumption_atheism-is-not-just-about-not-believing_233454.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind…” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 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