Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYI think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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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.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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