Stephen Fry Quotes

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Stephen Fry

Funny, Age, Remind

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 Fry

Experience, Insult, Once

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry

Truth, Freedom, Tolerance

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.
Stephen Fry

Depression, Word, Point

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
Stephen Fry

Takes, Common, English

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

Future, Impossible, Place

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

Daily, Human, Means

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry

Passion, Sense, Reasonable

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry

Book, Give, Away

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry

Yourself, Reason, Six

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.
Stephen Fry

Saying, May, Sometimes

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

Women, Great, Men

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry

Why, Seen, Exists

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Stephen Fry

Great, Happy, Path

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Stephen Fry

True, Cliche, Cliches

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
Stephen Fry

Admire, Generally

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry

Art, Talking, Television

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry

Hard, Idea, Library

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry

Christmas, Travel, Child

But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Stephen Fry

Happiness, Persons

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Stephen Fry

Home, Writing, Down

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.
Stephen Fry

Thought, Become, Grow

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
Stephen Fry

Lazy, Enough, Coward

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
Stephen Fry

Love, Word, Full

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Nationality: British

Born: August 24, 1957

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