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.
Quotes to Explore
-
My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
-
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
-
I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a 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.
-
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.
-
The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
-
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
-
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
-
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
-
Half of the people in the world are below average.
-
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without 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.
-
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.
-
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
-
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
-
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.
-
We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.
-
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.
