Stephen Fry Quotes:
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
Stephen Fry
I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Stephen Fry
But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
Stephen Fry
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Stephen Fry
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
Stephen Fry
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Stephen Fry
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry
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 could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Stephen Fry
Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Stephen Fry
You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
Stephen Fry
There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
Stephen Fry
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
Stephen Fry
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry
It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry
I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really bev there.
Stephen Fry