Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYI am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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 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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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 so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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