Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not. Stephen Fry More Quotes by Stephen Fry More Quotes From Stephen Fry There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality. Stephen Fry british morality fit I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself. Stephen Fry ejaculation forgiving kind When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. Stephen Fry despair house looks The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies. Stephen Fry swear vocabulary people I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform. Stephen Fry real heart blood A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there Stephen Fry fool cutting glasses My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. Stephen Fry mixtures writing two If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears. Stephen Fry phrases ears world An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. Stephen Fry witty funny book You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. Stephen Fry wish writing fall As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying. Stephen Fry bipolar mind depression You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. Stephen Fry height six reason It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. Stephen Fry realising common rooms I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. Stephen Fry talking art thinking It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. Stephen Fry cliche unfaithful comedy Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. Stephen Fry faculty professors dies If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Stephen Fry being-depressed depression weather If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. Stephen Fry care curiosity people I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion. Stephen Fry reading heart book 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 kind facts firsts
