Stephen Fry Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Children, God

  Tags in Beautiful, Account

• Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Friendship

• The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Failing, People

• Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Only my tongue, sir.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading

• People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Change, Happiness

• Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Philosophy

• You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Act

• There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt, Extremes

• Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words

• Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disorder

• My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Writing

• My father was all brain and little heart.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor

• If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religions

• Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Face

• I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lazy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought

Stephen Fry (63)

Birth:	24th August, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Comedian, Director, Journalist, Playwriter, Poet, Screenwriter, Television Presenter

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