Stephen Fry Quotes

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

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• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

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• Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money - or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

  

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• The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

  

  Samuel Barnett
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• The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
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• We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Life
  • Live
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• The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.

  

  Alan Alda
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• The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Study
  • Failing
  • Sake

• I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Trying
  • Business
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• Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Government
  • Vote
  • Failing

• Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

  

  F. M. Scherer
  • Failing
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  • Titles

• Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.

  

  Rachel Simmons
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  • Opportunity
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• Love wins when everything else will fail.

  

  Fanny Jackson Coppin
  • Winning
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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Brain
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• Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.

  

  G.A. Henty
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  • Sometimes
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• 90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
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  • Persistence
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• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Enough

• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Company
  • Failing
  • Medicine

• I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
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  • Action
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• Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it's not how you play the game, it's if you win or lose, you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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• I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Interest
  • Gardening
  • Armchair

• I was having a rare weekend back in Sheffield at my local pub and somebody asked me what we were going to call the new album. I said I wasn't sure yet. Somebody turned around and said, "Why don't you call it Halley's Comet? It comes around about as often.' In fact, Halley's Comet has already been out and we are still recording.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Album
  • Recording
  • Pub

• Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Failing
  • Foolish