Quotes by Stephen Fry

About Stephen Fry:

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
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Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I...

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There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

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Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercises he did to keep his brain fit. Healey had laughed. "It's memory, Cartwright, old dear. Memory, the mother of the Muses... at least that's what thingu...

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But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

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Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?

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The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians

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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, M...

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I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, possibly. All three! A column that lifts, separates, supports, serves excellent cappuccino and crackles merrily with sweet-smelling old chestnuts.

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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

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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.

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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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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 be there.

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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

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My father was all brain and little heart.

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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

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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