Stephen Fry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
-
I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
-
My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.
-
Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.
-
By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
-
Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
-
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.
-
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
-
Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
-
People spend money when and where they feel good.
-
The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.
-
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
-
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
-
I divide my time equally between teaching and research.
-
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
-
Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
-
Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.
