Stephen Fry quotes

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. (Stephen Fry)
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. View quote
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. View quote
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. View quote
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. View quote
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Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. View quote
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If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
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Stephen Fry on being gay My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.' View quote
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. View quote
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. View quote
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Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation. (Stephen Fry)
Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea. View quote
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All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy” used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started! View quote
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. View quote
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. View quote
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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. View quote
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Compromise is a stalling between two fools. View quote
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Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice. View quote
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Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. View quote
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. View quote
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Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. (Stephen Fry)
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 brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since. View quote
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[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh! View quote
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I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane. View quote
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There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality. View quote
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