Stephen Fry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
-
An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
-
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
-
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
-
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
-
You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
-
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
-
We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
-
Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
-
People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
-
I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
-
If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
-
I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
-
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
-
What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
-
Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.
-
Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
-
Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
-
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
-
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.
-
I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That's the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That's how I feel about my career.
-
One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
-
Between funny and witty Falls the shadow
