Quote

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

Stephen Fry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Improviser
Journalist
Narrator
Novelist
Performing Artist
Hampstead Village
Stephen John Fry
Way
Bits
Nice
Fact
Means
Facts
True
Nature
Ignore
Mean
Choose

More quotes by Stephen Fry

Image
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
Stephen Fry
Image
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
Stephen Fry
Image
The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
Stephen Fry
Image
I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
Stephen Fry
Image
Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
Stephen Fry
Image
How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
Stephen Fry
Image
You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.
Stephen Fry
Image
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.
Stephen Fry
Image
My father was all brain and little heart.
Stephen Fry
Image
Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.
Stephen Fry
Image
[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.
Stephen Fry
Image
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
Stephen Fry
Image
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry
Image
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
Stephen Fry
Image
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.
Stephen Fry
Image
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'
Stephen Fry
Image
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
Stephen Fry
Image
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
Stephen Fry
Image
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
Stephen Fry
Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
Stephen Fry