Author, actor, comedian, journalist, media presenter, screenwriter and social activist - Yes, it pretty much sums up the life of Stephen Fry. Coping with distressed young years, two school suspensions and three months of imprisonment for credit card fraud, Fry ultimately surfaced as a popular English media personality, known for his outstanding performance in ‘A bit of Fry & Laurie’, Blackaddar, Kingdom and Stephen Fry in America (a travel series). He has also done voice-over for all 7 books in the Harry Potter series, UK’s audiobook, animated movies and videogames. Multi-talented Stephen was a long-time host at QI quiz show. The legendary actor won Golden Globe nomination for Wilde. However, his epic Emmy award winning book ‘Stephen Fry: The Secret life of the Maniac Depressive’ earned him worldwide recognition. The world applauds his remarkable documentary aired on BBC where Stephen reveals the struggles of bipolar disorder sufferers and inspires millions of patients to win the losing battle. He has contributed to several articles, newspaper columns and novels like Moab is My Washpot. His life is an inspiration for teens struggling with behavioral issues. We all know Stephen Fry's wit is edgy and sharp. He articulates very well with clarity of perception. His thoughts and witty one-liners are very popular quotes. We have excerpted his quotes from his books, shows, writings, films and life in general. Here are some of Stephen Fry's quotes for you to read and enjoy.
The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.
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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence
You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
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It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.
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Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.
I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.
A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.
...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.
Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.
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Knowing those things are going to kill you," she said, "and still you do it."
"How differently I might behave," Tom said, "if immortality were an option.
It was a Tuesday in February. Many of my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?
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I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, "I go to the theatre to be entertained.
You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence.
[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify
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Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.
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I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
Late, Fry?’ ‘Really, sir? So am I.’ ‘Don’t try to be clever, boy.’ ‘Very good, sir. How stupid would you like me to be? Very stupid or only slightly stupid?
