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
I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed.… — 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
One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies. — 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 like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of… — 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