When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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