Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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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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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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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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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