The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television. — 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,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. — 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
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
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
Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the… — 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
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies…… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'... — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we… — 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
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings… — 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
