You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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 think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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