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 is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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