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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• My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Hard

• 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.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• 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

• 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.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Strong
  • Problem
  • Enemy

• 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

• People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • People
  • Fans
  • Records

• We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Society
  • Minds
  • Liberating

• Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values, that is, a culture of mutual tolerance and respect - in other words, what constitutes the heart of European culture.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Experiment
  • Failed
  • Multiculturalism

• No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • inspirational

• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• 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