If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to… — 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
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.… — 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
“...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
