Stephen Fry Quotes

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Stephen Fry

• Fool
• Compromise

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Death
  • Dream

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • American
  • House
  • Space

• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Law

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Mom
  • Benefits
  • Workplace

• I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

  

  Rain
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mistake

• Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Taken

• Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Family
  • May

• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business

• Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Sun
  • Shine

• Way down South they gave a jubilee Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup The folks dancing there got all shook up.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Home
  • Drinking

• I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Friends

• All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding, and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Action

• If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Humanity

• When you are bowling at such a high velocity and trying to get momentum through the crease and try to bowl a yorker you only look at a slight variation in your trajectory to the wicket.

  

  Brett Lee
  • Velocity
  • Trajectory
  • Wicket

• The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try to pose as democratic-he must be democratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen, would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen for very long. He must ring true.

  

  T. Coleman du Pont
  • Long
  • American
  • True

• Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Strange

• Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fool
  • Compromise