Stephen Fry Quotes

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• A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors.…
• Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.
• Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.
• At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has…
• Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?..
• And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
• Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else
• How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
• When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.
• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
• I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
• If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment…
• It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'...
• Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well…
• The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.
• Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.
• A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there
• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the…
• Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers
• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad…

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