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 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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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