Stephen Fry Quotes

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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• I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Winning
  • Rivalry

• It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Water
  • Decision

• I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

  

  John Chamberlain
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Materials

• The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Beautiful
  • Law
  • Color

• We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Months
  • Mother’s Day

• Half of the people in the world are below average.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Average

• Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Peril

• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Business

• The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Military

• In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Faith
  • Miracles
  • Realist

• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Imagination
  • Profound
  • Deserted

• You don't want to be conscious of everything.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Want
  • Conscious

• Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • Effort
  • Philosophy

• She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...

  

  Arthur Ransome
  • Life
  • Job
  • Cambridge

• Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Country
  • Memories
  • Grows

• 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.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Grows
  • Cambridge