Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind. Stephen Fry More Quotes by Stephen Fry More Quotes From Stephen Fry Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays. Stephen Fry coffeereadingbook I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out Stephen Fry prudesdrunkgentleman You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman. Stephen Fry mennightsex I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson. Stephen Fry marriedhusbandnames You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool. Stephen Fry joy It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you Stephen Fry gayracismcute I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet. Stephen Fry piecountryyears 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 falling-in-lovewritinglaughing I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight. Stephen Fry woodsacceptingfacts The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit. Stephen Fry orangedemandtrying 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 qualitystarsordinary I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again. Stephen Fry getting-oldercomedytrying It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you. Stephen Fry want-somethingphonesknowing Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold. Stephen Fry kill-billanimated-seriesrevenge 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 tweedgrowscambridge This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders. Stephen Fry wallspiritualchildren Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. Stephen Fry businesspeoplethinking Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. Stephen Fry bradturned-downfaces It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. Stephen Fry realideasthinking When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. Stephen Fry infantbackwardscomedy
