“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — 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
The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“... Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas... And yet, oh, and yet,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or… — 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
