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Things Quotes by Stephen Fry
- 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…
- There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.
- Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you…
- If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the…
- It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
- I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just…
- It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art…
- If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is,…
- It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe,…
- We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things…
- Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they…
- Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I…
- I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle