Quotes by Stephen Fry

About Stephen Fry:

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

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there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

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There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite ...

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Entirely in accordance with what education is supposed to be. Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. You sit in each other's rooms and drink coffee - I suppose it would be vodka and Red Bull now - you...

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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

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It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that mon...

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Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

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lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, dri...

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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 American woman watched in disbelief. "And you so intelligent!" "Excuse me?" said tom "Knowing those th...

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But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it in the same way, so we can all agree - can’t we? - that no matter how confident we may appear to others, inside we are all sobbing, scared and uncertain for m...

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Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

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I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

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I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify

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Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.

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If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral missio...

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But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state." "Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think...

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Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their sleeve, and Jason had to overcome his fears and deal with the secret world he was now a part of. He would have to grow a tough shell around himself. Despi...

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Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

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Author Bio

  • NameStephen Fry
  • DescriptionEnglish comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
  • AliasesStephen John Fry
  • BornAugust 24, 1957
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Comedian; Television Presenter; Screenwriter; Autobiographer; Writer; Director; Television Actor