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.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
-
-
There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRY -
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRY -
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.
STEPHEN FRY -
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRY -
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRY -
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRY -
I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRY -
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
STEPHEN FRY -
I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRY -
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.
STEPHEN FRY -
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
STEPHEN FRY -
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
STEPHEN FRY -
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
STEPHEN FRY -
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRY -
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRY






