Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. Stephen Fry More Quotes by Stephen Fry More Quotes From Stephen Fry Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance. Stephen Fry usefulness hierarchy importance My parents were marvelously educated people. Stephen Fry educated parent people Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all. Stephen Fry reaching australia way Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. Stephen Fry comedy intelligent people Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! Stephen Fry pleasure-love library love-you If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped. Stephen Fry has-beens ifs glad I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. Stephen Fry greedy curious mind It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid. Stephen Fry unlucky stupid reason Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac) Stephen Fry hate real fun A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free. Stephen Fry salary regret numbers Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he? Stephen Fry assumption atheism believe I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche. Stephen Fry believe dirty thinking If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? Stephen Fry ignorance success happiness We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it. Stephen Fry artist talking hands Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them. Stephen Fry machines coffee moving Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery. Stephen Fry belief roots evil Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows? Stephen Fry coffee zoos men A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. Stephen Fry library real rooms You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children Stephen Fry cancer beautiful children Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me. Stephen Fry games beautiful school
