Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. Stephen Fry More Quotes by Stephen Fry More Quotes From Stephen Fry You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip. Stephen Fry rapturefinefirsts If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too. Stephen Fry madsmartsong There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. Stephen Fry decentlimitspeople Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us. Stephen Fry namesgivinglaughing I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while. Stephen Fry viewsbelievepeople You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing. Stephen Fry wellsphrasesmean I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view. Stephen Fry buriedobviousviews I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party. Stephen Fry tupperwarepartyfound I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language Stephen Fry distinctionlanguagesilly Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution. Stephen Fry frogsdrinkingfirsts Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. Stephen Fry cracksusewriting I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away. Stephen Fry kneesproposallove I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me. Stephen Fry raysmushroomsparty If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion. Stephen Fry optimismemotionconfusion That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Stephen Fry homophobesgendersexuality I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. Stephen Fry lazycowardenough Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world. Stephen Fry enoughsometimesworld And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch. Stephen Fry moonairwind We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation. Stephen Fry eyefaceslooks There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be. Stephen Fry individualsoulrooms
