Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. — 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
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. — 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… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you… — 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
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor… — 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
What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that… — 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
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Straight people are encouraged by culture and society to believe that their sexual impulses are the norm, and therefore when their affairs… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line the American love affair with wilderness changed from the thoughtful, sensitive isolationism of Thoreau to the bully, manly,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“You are aware that what they do, they do for the world, and the results are, of course, magnificent. But when you… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — 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
