Stephen Fry Quotes

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Stephen Fry

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 24, 1957

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

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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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

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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 television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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

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

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I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

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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.

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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

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

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

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