“I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Nothing prayed for – it is life’s strictest and least graceful rule – comes to you at the time of praying.” — 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
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, "In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it… — 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
“Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. Thank the gods there… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“well, as Auden wondered: Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, and without enjoying swearing.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It was a Tuesday in February. Many of my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February… — 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
