To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the… — 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
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender… — 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
“...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
